Forgive a girl a little shorthand for the sake of this medium?
I kept the footer because the business liked it, one participant really relied on it, it did no substantial harm, it's an emerging pattern, and I had worked with that previous UX consultant for something like eight years and in general trust his nose for these things. So -- put it in, measure how it works, make sure it's easy enough to rip it out later if it turns out to be a bad thing or if we have the time in the future to imagine and thoroughly test a really, really excellent thing.
Plus, we had much, much bigger fish to fry and a very limited budget and time frame on which to fry it. So I opted to spend more effort on the primary systems than on the redundant ones.
Make sense? On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
"... And truth be told, if it weren't for that one lady who totally relied on our footer, I was all in favor of killing it, ..." On a side note, I hope it was for more than that that you kept the footer. How users respond to UI elements is important data, but it must be analyzed and discussed. Otherwise the UI becomes a massive wish list of elements.
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