rt lange wrote: > http://www.pollenation.net/journal/index.php?p=37&c=1 > > main page mockup: > http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/python-main.html The last time we redesigned our website, we've got a significant amount of of hate mail. "You suck", "Idiots", "Previously it was so great you had to destroy it", "I've been a user for five years but I will never come back to this site" etc... The odd thing is that we thought that the site was significantly more usable than before, after all the redesign was based on an extensive usability testing. (It was a pretty cool experiment, observing users trough a one way mirror as they attempted predefined tasks, multiple cameras and microphones tracking what users do, it is a great thing to do if you have the chance) It was pretty hard to digest this hate mail, it was as if these people had zero respect for all the hard work we've put in, in fact most email was actually very rude and rushed, yet the only common ingredient in all of these emails was the perceived infallibility of the authors themselves. But guess what, usage became indeed a whole lot higher, users were doing more searches and were submitting significantly more ratings than before. We have accomplished everything we wanted. This and other anecdotal evidence led me to the conclusion that redesingin a site in a way that will please old-timers is impossible. Even more, one should be very careful in gathering input from them since they might live in a different world than most of the people one wants to reach. Negative comments will always far outnumber positive ones, for the simple reason that it seems a lot harder to praise a work than putting it down. I would agree with most here that a more text based site would be more suited, but let's try to remember that there are people that worked hard on this, and may even be right in what they are trying to accomplish. cheers, Istvan.
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