I recently attended an HFI class and was pointed to a piece of research called, "Examining User Expectations of the Location of Web Objects". The study reported that users generally expected the Login element of e-commerce sites to be located in the upper-left corner of the page just after the logo. The study was publish in 2002, but seems to hold water. Look at Amazon and other big e-commerce sites.
I don't think this is the whole study... http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec00/article_bernard.html http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/62/web_object_international.htm The presentation... http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hfes/hfproc/2003/00000047/00000011/art00008 I hope you find this helpful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28399 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
