Begin forwarded message:
From: Halltennis@aol.com
Subject: www site proposed
Date: June 28, 1997 at 03:21:41 EDT
To: joe@joe10.com
Joe–
Went through everything, clicking all the way and waiting. As usual, web
waiting seemed a burden. I know, it is the nature of the beast; but, like
grizzley bears, it prevents people from visiting the scenery.
Over all the design and the logic seemed to work well, and made sense. One
minor exception: “…buy books on (ON?) our….” From? If I am buying, I
like to deal with the party I am buying from not the “place,” such as a WWW
site, where the deal appears visible–in reality that is my “:desktop.”Considering the present cumbersome state of WWW, I think the major problem is
color separation, for me most noticeable in the Joe10 design, but also
apparent in the others.
The only other distraction (and I do not know how ti charecterize it) was the
“Tools We’ll Use” and “Book Reviews” button. Putting two things into one
button threw me for a minute, looked like an error, then I recovered after
clicking anyway, despite feeling subtly alienated, and decided it was Okay.
BUT, those few moments of alienation/strangeness before I
clicked-waited-read, they signal a warning, a red flag of some kind.
Deviation from a pattern is an accented event.
L–h.
