Ease of Use / UI Question
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- corin0
I think you're boss has a good point, but i think the real issue is why gary lies in two sections, i don't think you can really say that you are doing anyone a favour by putting him in twice, obviously i don't know the full story but it sounds like poor structure. Your boss is right to worry about users getting confused, your don't do users favours, they are clients u do your job (this is not a bitch, but to use 'the fact that we were being nice to them' as justification for interface desicisions is quite a flawed argument in my opinion). So bascially i think that you're wrong and that gary shouldn't be in two places (unless it is made gratutiously clear that this is what is happening (there could be two garys so just saying his name twice doesn't mean ppl will expect the same result). If users click in the second gary place first and then get sent to the first gary section they might assume that said system is behaving erratically or doesn't work and possibly won't make the effort to search for gary at all, or anything else for that matter. Poor gary....
we're talking about gary coleman right?