Rob, The motogp.com site utilises this feature to indicate when the next race will commence (first practice session, actually). Given that races are sometimes on consecutive weeks, and sometimes three or four weeks apart, it's useful to have the countdown.
However, the audience of the motogp.com site is (going out on a limb here) very different to your exhibition site. At this stage I'd treat the countdown as an idea, not a requirement. Is there any research at this stage to back up the need for the countdown? Are potential exhibition visitors missing out because they forgot it was on "this week"? Is there some use case or scenario that indicates the need? If not, then mark it for testing with users when you get a chance and see what they say. Regards Steve 2008/8/24 Rob Enslin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Peeps, > > I'm in the midst of creating a project requirements document for a B2B > exhibition website. It's early stages so nothing is final yet. One of the > requirements is a count-down feature - a clock permanently placed on the > website that counts down the days, hours and minutes to the exhibition. > > I'm questioning the value (to the website users) of having a permanent > count-down clock on the website? Has anyone had any similar > experiences/dilemas before? > > Thanks, > > Rob > [IxDA list newbie] > > > ---- > Rob Enslin > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------- Steve 'Doc' Baty B.Sc (Maths), M.EC, MBA Principal Consultant Meld Consulting M: +61 417 061 292 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UX Statistics: http://uxstats.blogspot.com Member, UPA - www.upassoc.org Member, IA Institute - www.iainstitute.org Member, IxDA - www.ixda.org Contributor - UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
