Hi Steve, The countdown on the motogp.com site wasn't obvious - perhaps once logged in you might see it? I'd have to agree with you treating the countdown as an idea and not a requirement.
Is there any research at this stage to back up the need for the countdown? > No research has been done so the requirement is based on '*I think our visitors would love this - looks cool!*' or '*It looks cool so lets whack it on the site*' Are potential exhibition visitors missing out because they forgot it was on > "this week"? > No, the exhibition takes place annually. During the lead-up to the exhibition marketing activity ramps up. Essential information like dates and times.. etc are repeatedly communicated (through email drivers and home page copy re-arrangements). 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. > No, but it's something I've brought up repeatedly with our stakeholders. I've only recently got the green light to do some on-site (at the exhibition) research. I'd be interested to find out whether the website users actually remember there being a countdown at all? Perhaps having a countdown much closer to the event (two months out) might be useful, but present all year round seems a bit superfluous. Thanks, Rob 2008/8/26 Steve Baty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > -- / Rob Enslin / enslin.co.uk / twitter.com/robenslin / +44759 052 8890 ________________________________________________________________ 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
