Stephen Hahn wrote:
* Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-18 15:49]:
I'm starting to wonder if our website design isn't confusing
to them. (And a couple comments from people I've corrected
seem to confirm this.)
Is there someway to make it more clear that the top icon bar is the
site-wide list, and the less eye catching left nav bar is the more
important to use when on a project/community page?
Or should the icon bar just be removed from project/community pages?
I think that the navbar should be lower profile on non-global pages.
Dan mocked up a thin, text-only navbar for cr.opensolaris.org, which
might be a good starting point.
We might also consider adding icons/emphasis to the left hand nav on a
non-global page.
- Stephen
I agree that the design is confusing. I've been working on mockups to
test related to this, so I appreciate you calling it out as a problem.
We thought some best practices around problems like this might help as a
stop-gap measure. For this example, I think it makes sense to encourage
project and community leaders to include a link to their discussion list
in the main body text of their page near the top.
For the longer-term, I'm preparing for a usability study of the site,
and this is good detail of one of the use cases we're planning to test
(use case # 4 in the top 10 use cases for a open source participant who
finds opensolaris.org, posted under Use Cases here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/). I'll add this
detail to the use case and take a look at Dan's mockups.
Thanks,
Michelle
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