Archive for May, 2009
On the evening after JEEcamp I ended up, with Nick, showing Help Me Investigate to two friends whose opinion we valued: Alex Hughes and Michael Grimes. Their reactions to the site were invaluable - in particular, on the walk to the station, a remark from Michael has stuck in my head ever since.
To paraphrase, Michael [...]
Here’s a brief lesson I’ve learned in user testing: don’t obsess over the homepage, especially if it’s not the most likely place that people are going to enter the site.
Most sites get a minority - typically around 30% - of traffic coming via the homepage. For a site like Help Me Investigate, which is based [...]
Tags: homepage, twitter, user testing
