Blog home page layout idea
Posted on January 11th, 2006 in Usability | 1 Comment »
Mullet-style blog layout and complete archive page (Jesper Rønn-Jensen and Thomas Watson Steen) — “Very interesting from a usability perspective: The thought is to make more content available from the front page, by utilizing time as a filter: The older the article, the less content is available on the front page.”
I like the idea. However, my issue is that I don’t quite see the value. My gut says good idea but my practical side says what value does this really provide to users? Maybe I just need to noodle over it some more.
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Hey John. Thanks for pointing to the article. According to Jonathan Boutelle, who coined the idea, the value to the user is less pogo-sticking (that is less searching for content). And also to make old content available and easier to find.
As I see it, that has got a significant business value, although (like you I suppose) I’d love to see some data confirming it.