Andrei, I have to disagree. Your point can be taken on the home page, but what about every other page of the site? That's where I think it's even more problematic. When you go to an interior page they carry the same design through, and then the percentage of non-linked body copy to other links is the other way around (90% non-linked), making it much harder to find links. (and what about links within the stories themselves? any cues there?)
>From a usability perspective, it seems to me that this is a huge drawback. Even milliseconds spent figuring out where to click can have a hugely detrimental affect on the usability (or even just the perceived usability) of a web site. There are enough ways to balance clean design while maintaining visual cues that this just seems like the wrong answer. As mentioned above though, it would be REALLY interesting to see some user testing data of the site with and without visual cues in the design. Cheers, Jason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44633 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
