Hi Matthias, and others of course, >> At least and for now I have added your usability issue to slide 14 at >> http://ux.openoffice.org/reports/2007/website/sitedesign.odp
finally took time to take a look at your slides. Sorry I didn't do it earlier. Regarding the ease of use download. What we need to answer is: a) regarding getting a physical CD: - how many users want to get a CD instead of download the product - how much space is it worth, and at what level? b) how important are alternative downloads to us? Two clicks in the workflow can easily avoided, try surfing the website without javascript... two clicks are eliminated. However, since we a) wanted to promote physical CD's and alternative downloads and b) wanted to remember users to contribute, two additional clicks were introduced (which happen to rely on javascript. I don't care whether we eliminate these two clicks. It definitely makes downloading easier, but we must remember that it is not a small package for people behind 56k modems. And we once agreed that getting people to contribute should be promoted as well. The original design for the homepage we have now, included in a small font below the download-only button a link to the CD-Rom page. This was replaced by a bullet list inside the green button area which was definitely confusing, therefore that one was replaced with the page we have now (also after some iterations). Just the other side of the story... design would be easy if there were no constraints and you could do anything (well, some may find that harder ;) ) If we agree on CD's are definitely less important than downloads, it is only removal of code to make the download part open directly. Similarly for the direct download, instead of showing the contribution page (we could btw opt for a redirect instead of a button on the contributing page, but some argued against this option (not me though)). g., Maarten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
