Re: UT question on home page content

Thanks for the question Shawn.

In my humble opinion... we need to have some draft content in those areas
for the testers to be exposed to. I think that will help give us feedback
to whether those areas are too big, too strong, too distracting from the
main nav, etc... I am working on a draft recommendation of what should be
in all those areas. I think this is something that should be observed in
the testing to see how they respond to the page content along with the nav.



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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ref: https://w3c.github.io/wai-website-components/components/prev
> iew/example-home.html
>
> The home page design has lots of content, including the featured resource
> at the top, the featured video, and the four boxes in the middle.
>
> I noticed in some of the user research Charlotte did before, that users
> focused on those a lot.
>
> My question is: Do we want to focus the usability testing on the
> navigation, and not have those areas of the home page take attention away
> from the navigation? If so, should we make those clearly Lorem Ipsum? If
> not, we need to be aware that users might click on those areas and not use
> the nav as much. Maybe that's fine, as we learn from that, too?
>
> Charlotte, what do you think?
>
> ~Shawn
>
>