Comment Michael Johnson's! (But where are the slashboxes?) (Score 1) 44
This is a very airy design, it lightens the experience. The use of Mac OS X like design might be a bit overused at the moment? Compared to the other designs it really shines. The runner up is Jason's, which share the clarity of the navigation and stories without feeling cluttered; like Gregory's and Heath's designs are sorry examples of.
The slashboxes aren't there in Michael's design; which could be a good thing; he is also missing the top advertisment box. The slashboxes might or might not be valuable; without proper analysis of the logs of the website we don't know how people leave slashdot. (I don't know if they are making use of any system to get hold of how people leave.) At least Slashdot would know how many people have configured the Slashboxes, but it isn't a good pointer, because I don't think anyone would register a user here just to configure slashboxes, but those who have a interest enough to register will probably have a higher propensity for configuring them anyway.
It would also be interesting to know if the links to stories in sections which have no lead in (those small grey boxes you can see between some stories on the front page of the current slashdot) generates significant click rate to the stories/sections. They are cluttering up the front page and breaking the current design.
More data mining might reveal better ways to change the front page with regards to what should and shouldn't be there. My gut feeling is that the current design seems to be have it mostly right, but I have no idea how it got to be like it is.
The slashboxes aren't there in Michael's design; which could be a good thing; he is also missing the top advertisment box. The slashboxes might or might not be valuable; without proper analysis of the logs of the website we don't know how people leave slashdot. (I don't know if they are making use of any system to get hold of how people leave.) At least Slashdot would know how many people have configured the Slashboxes, but it isn't a good pointer, because I don't think anyone would register a user here just to configure slashboxes, but those who have a interest enough to register will probably have a higher propensity for configuring them anyway.
It would also be interesting to know if the links to stories in sections which have no lead in (those small grey boxes you can see between some stories on the front page of the current slashdot) generates significant click rate to the stories/sections. They are cluttering up the front page and breaking the current design.
More data mining might reveal better ways to change the front page with regards to what should and shouldn't be there. My gut feeling is that the current design seems to be have it mostly right, but I have no idea how it got to be like it is.
