On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:45 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Perhaps we need two pages. We'll drop people to the initial page
> they'd
> typically see (i386, ppc, whatever) basically what it is now. Then we
> make a nice ? icon or help icon and stick it all over that page, when
> people click on it they go to more of a "download wizard".
>
> This gives us two benefits. 1) we keep a simple page for people and
> 2) we
> get to see how many people end up using the wizard. If we find that
> the
> click through is only 1% that at least tells us something, on the
> other
> hand if we find out its 50% we know we need to account for these
> people
> all over our site, not just download.
We can ask our UI experts how best to do the ? mark, but overall +1 to
this approach. Yet ...
There are three good ways from here:
* Leave page as-is, then ? => link to wizard
* Make page a wizard, with a link off to "I know what I want"
* Two-boxes in the middle: "Help me figure out what I need" ... "I know
what I want" that link out to appropriate pages
"User Interaction Expert, where are you?!?"
- Karsten
I hope I'm not showing my ignorance here but is there any way for
javascript/java/OSS language to grab this information? Perhaps we should
focus on a "What is recommended for this machine?" type button.
-Mike