Comments on: Location, Location, Location – Dashboard Design http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/ Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:44:13 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: DSA http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2201 DSA Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:43:20 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/#comment-2201 @Derek - thank you for the comment! I think there is *some* merit to the article. I also agree that the reading depends heavily on the page layout. I tried it out and I have a slightly different approach to online reading. When it comes to blogs, I read the title and determine if I want to continue reading. If I'm interested, I will read the entire post, unless it's too long. If a blog post is over ~1500 words, I probably won't read it unless I am extremely interested in the topic. If I wanted to read a book, I would go to Amazon. In terms of blogs and websites in general, I tend to look at the title and sidebars in this order: 1)Title 2)Left sidebar 3)Right sidebar. @Derek – thank you for the comment!

I think there is *some* merit to the article. I also agree that the reading depends heavily on the page layout. I tried it out and I have a slightly different approach to online reading. When it comes to blogs, I read the title and determine if I want to continue reading. If I’m interested, I will read the entire post, unless it’s too long. If a blog post is over ~1500 words, I probably won’t read it unless I am extremely interested in the topic. If I wanted to read a book, I would go to Amazon.

In terms of blogs and websites in general, I tend to look at the title and sidebars in this order: 1)Title 2)Left sidebar 3)Right sidebar.

]]> By: derek http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2200 derek Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:52:45 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/#comment-2200 I saw that Jakob Nielsen article last year and wasn't convinced. It seemed to me that people were just reading the F-shaped web pages in the way they had been prompted to by the design. That's not to say there isn't a benefit in conforming to a standard page design, but I think the designs are following each other, not some human factors universal. It's as if a study had concluded that humans always read text from left to right, without troublng to include any hebrew or chinese texts in the study. I saw that Jakob Nielsen article last year and wasn’t convinced. It seemed to me that people were just reading the F-shaped web pages in the way they had been prompted to by the design.

That’s not to say there isn’t a benefit in conforming to a standard page design, but I think the designs are following each other, not some human factors universal. It’s as if a study had concluded that humans always read text from left to right, without troublng to include any hebrew or chinese texts in the study.

]]> By: DSA http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2198 DSA Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:05:15 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/#comment-2198 @david - Thanks for the feedback. Your suggested method may help to transition out the logo versus the big bang approach where you just remove it. Some executives may have heart burn if it just disappears one day. On another note: I wonder how many readers rhetorically said, why wouldn't you pretty-up the data? @david – Thanks for the feedback. Your suggested method may help to transition out the logo versus the big bang approach where you just remove it. Some executives may have heart burn if it just disappears one day.

On another note: I wonder how many readers rhetorically said, why wouldn’t you pretty-up the data?

]]> By: David Gerbino http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2197 David Gerbino Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:41 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/10/location-location-location-dashboard-design/#comment-2197 Another excellent post. As a marketing and brand person, as well as a marketing and database analyst, who believes brand is very important, I will repeat what Tony said, GET THE COMPANY LOGO OFF THE DASHBOARD. If you do not know who you work for, the dashboard is not the place to remind you. The advice I give to those who are stuck including the logo is to start shrinking it and slowly make it vanish. The alternative...follow Tony's advice. @dmgerbino Another excellent post. As a marketing and brand person, as well as a marketing and database analyst, who believes brand is very important, I will repeat what Tony said, GET THE COMPANY LOGO OFF THE DASHBOARD. If you do not know who you work for, the dashboard is not the place to remind you. The advice I give to those who are stuck including the logo is to start shrinking it and slowly make it vanish. The alternative…follow Tony’s advice. @dmgerbino

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