Re: Header design mock 11/10

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:27 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> The breakdown of the wgo site navigation is here:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure
> 
> This was actually agreed last cycle, and we're almost
> at the stage of writing the content.
> But if you feel we should do that, then I suppose we
> can.

Nah, I don't really want to derail the process, I know the info
architecture is a good way down the road now.  (And it's not that I
spotted any huge flaws in it, I was just curious, really.)

>  Although I don't know if anyone other than you
> has the experience and the resources to do any
> card-sorting  -- I for one wouldn't have a clue where
> to begin.

It's easy enough to do-- infodesign.com.au has a nice one-page summary
of card sorting and other common usability techniques:
http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/design/cardsorting.asp

The hard part, as always, is finding the right people to do it with... I
guess rounding up some users at GUADEC would have been useful (if still
not ideal, because a lot of the types of people you're trying to serve
wouldn't have been there), but I know you hadn't even really started
planning this stuff until then.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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