[Sigia-l] redesign: incremental or all-in-one?

[Ken Bryson]

In my experience, much depends on how much you need to version the materials
you have there.

If you do updates weekly, then you'll need to update both the legacy site
and the in-development site at the same time so that when you launch the new
site it's content is up to date.  This can be a major pain.

Depending on what the "circumstances" are, you'll need to make a number of
major changes, whether you do them incrementally or not.  The one advantage
of a all-in-one switch is you only confuse your users once. If you keep
tinkering over a 6 month period, you'll confuse people over and over again
throughout the whole period as you move things around..

-kb


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> Angus Fraser
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:48 AM
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> Subject: [Sigia-l] redesign: incremental or all-in-one?
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>
> Hi  all
>
> Imagine, if you can, an online service that has a usable UI with
> findable content and large userbase who are familiar with the
> structure
> and UI widgets/tools used. If circumstances make a
> significant redesign
> necessary, is it best to introduce the redesigned service
> incrementally
> or all in one go?
>
> I am interested in any accounts/examples of such transitions,
> advice on
> the best approach and if it exists research/reports on the success of
> various approaches. I will summarise for the group.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Angus Fraser
>
> Angus Fraser
> UI Creative
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