RE: UT question on home page content

+1 to Brent

From: Bakken, Brent [mailto:brent.bakken@pearson.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:02 PM
To: Shawn Henry
Cc: Charlotte Wise; WSTF; Green, James
Subject: 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<mailto:shawn@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi all,

Ref: https://w3c.github.io/wai-website-components/components/preview/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