[Sigia-l] Mixed lists

[Peter Van Dijck]

Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about :) I see this more and more, I
think it's all about managing attention and don't make the user think. I
think there are probably some design thoughts to be extracted from that
practice somewhere...
Thanks for the  example Louise!

Peter

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Louise Hewitt <louise at semantico.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> Nice post.
>
> We are redeveloping our corporate site and are using WordPress so that we
> can easily populate and repurpose content. As a result we've created a mixed
> list of recent items on the home page - don't know if this fits your model,
> but it goes something like this:
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> BLOG - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> JOB - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> dd-mm-yyyy
> CLIENT - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah
>
> Seemed like a nice way of keeping things updated without cluttering the
> interface with loads of different elements.
>
> User sees a list of new stuff, Labels tell the users what kind of stuff
> each new thing is 1+ 1 bit of mental processing
>
> instead of
>
> User sees a list of new stuff, new stuff is type blah, User sees a list of
> new stuff, new stuff is type blah, User sees a list of new stuff, new stuff
> is type blah,
> 1+1(n) bits of mental processing.
>
> Does anyone have any examples to hand of other sites that use this pattern?
> If for no other reason than to convince my devs it's a good idea!
>
> Ta,
>
> Lou.
>
> On 21 Feb 2009, at 13:36, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
>
> I wrote a blogpost on the tendency to focus attention with mixed lists,
> would love feedback/thoughts/other examples:
> http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/02/21/4459/mixed-lists
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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