Re: UT question on home page content

On 7 Sep 2017, at 18:02, Bakken, Brent wrote:

> 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.

+1, I think (not being an expert at all of this :-D)

Also, whenever I used lorem ipsum, people immediately asked why there is 
Latin on the page and were distracted.

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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
>>
>>

Received on Thursday, 7 September 2017 16:47:55 UTC