On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think
looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that
all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style.
Hi Rex,
I asked my girlfriend who has some experience in this matter for her
input, here are her impressions (she added slashdot to the list) in a
grade where 5 is the best. Unfortunately she didn't think any of the sites
were great, so none of them got full marks...
Look and feel Navigation Useability Overall
www.lyx.org 1 1 1 1
wiki.lyx.org 2 2 2 2
Octave 1 2 3 1
Emacs 1 1 1 1
Python 2 3 3 3
Ruby 4 2 2 3
SciPy 3 3 3 3
Slashdot 4 4 4 4
* "Look and feel" means the level of design
* "Navigation" means how easy they are to navigate, and how easy it is to
see where you are (within the site). Also how intuitivie navigation is.
* "Useability" means e.g. that a small number of clicks is needed to
easily reach your desitnation. Do you have to scroll?
Do you have to look for the links on the page, or do you see them at
once? Do you need more than three clicks to reach your destination?
* "Overall" means the overall impression of the site. Does it look
professional?
In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org
and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the
wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her
though.
cheers,
Christian
http://www.slashdot.org
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.python.org/
http://www.scipy.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
