Miikka Leskinen wrote:
> What do you mean 'half-hidden'? In a wrong location of too close to the
> screen edge?
No, the other way. Uhm... there is a background image, and it's too high. It's
covering the 'user' and 'password' entries.
> I guess the easy workaround for this is to make the buttons smaller and
> the center content vertically smaller in overall. This could be done by
> killing the image (as in Emily's design) and moving the components to
> another location.
Perhaps. I do think that such a large image makes usable design more difficult.
Removing the image doesn't have to make the page unattractive. As in Emily's
design, one can still use the wired seagulls as a theme element. And it sure
looks more relevant than the eggs in Maarten's latest design.
> But I have to acknowledge you're right. There isn't much help for new
> users on the homepage. I think that information can be put below the
> separator line.
It would be hidden. One of the most spectacularly good things about Emily's
design is that this information is *not* hidden. It's right there, on the
initial
page load. It's hard to overstate the difference that makes.
> This is again something that's super easy to fix. I don't know if this
> even falls to the category 'problems of a design'.
Some are easy to fix ("user" -> "new user"). But others are significant, and
definitely design problems. In particular, I'm referring to the absence of
important content, and the fact that the design could not be easily altered to
include the missing content.
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