[Sigia-l] the lesser importance of home pages -> more splash pagefun?

[Lyle Kantrovich]

On 12/17/05, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> Christopher Fahey:
>
> > But the polar opposite of this -- putting a hundred "useful" things on the
> > home page -- is IMHO just as bad.
>
> You need to convince Jared and the other usability testers on that one. :-)

It's called minimalist design.  Most "usability folks" that run tests
are very much for it.  Please quit smearing "usability testers".  Just
because you put a smiley after it doesn't make it humor or less
accusatory.  Featuritis is something most usability folks fight
against every day.

One of Nielsen's heuristics is "Aesthetic and minimalist design:
Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely
needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with
the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative
visibility."

Grant skinner did a good job adapting that to RIAs here:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/usability_heuristics_for_rich_internet_applications

I could cite 100 other examples.

Useful isn't equal to usable.


Lyle

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