[thelist] Usability question: home page vs dashboard at same URL

[Nadeem Hosenbokus]

" Users who want to remind themselves why they are using the service" -
brilliant! Have you ever seen a TV show called Argumental? You'd be perfect
;-)

I understand though - the marketing still has value for registered users in
terms of their information for word-of-mouth promotion. That would
constitute a big difference between this and Facebook and Twitter.

Those would be the selling points to the client if you have to convince them
to provide access to a fixed homepage and put the dashboard on a different
URL. Also, there's nothing to lose is there? 

What is the gain in value by replacing the homepage with a dashboard? If
it's ease-of-use, then you could automatically redirect logged in users to
their dashboard if they hit the homepage. 

Using a GET parameter can disable the redirection so, for example:
		
	"index.php" would redirect to "dashboard.php" for users who are
logged in (identified by a cookie or session).

	"index.php?redirect=false" would not redirect.

So in the navigation for logged in users, you would put the GET parameter on
the home link, but not on the navigation for public users.

Thanks,

Nadeem Hosenbokus
(230) 5766 9169
www.nadeemh.com
http://mu.linkedin.com/in/nadeemhosenbokus


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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Mattias Thorslund
Sent: 16 September 2016 18:28
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Usability question: home page vs dashboard at same
URL

I guess the value of showing the marketing content to "sold" users might be:

* Users can refer to it when recommending the service to someone else.
* Users can refer to it when someone questions the benefit of spending
money/time/resources on the service.
* Users who want to remind themselves why they are using the service ;)
* Not confusing users who want to do any of the above.

There may be value in making the marketing content difficult to find for
"sold" users:
* Users cannot compare the promised benefits to those actually received. ;)

Cheers,

Mattias

On 2016-09-16 15:50, Nadeem Hosenbokus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm assuming that the marketing on the unauthenticated homepage is to 
> sell the service. Once sold, the user wouldn't need to see the marketing
anymore.
>
>
> Is there any value in the marketing content for someone who has 
> already registered?
>
> Incidentally, wouldn't there still be a "home" link regardless? It 
> would link to either the marketing homepage or the dashboard.
>
>
> Nadeem Hosenbokus
> (230) 5766 9169
> www.nadeemh.com
> http://mu.linkedin.com/in/nadeemhosenbokus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of erik mattheis
> Sent: 15 September 2016 22:40
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] Usability question: home page vs dashboard at same 
> URL
>
> I have a project that has a "public home page" containing marketing 
> messages and overviews of the site's functionality. There is also a 
> logged in dashboard with user generated content.
>
> I am implementing the design and noting the absence of a link to "home"
> from the logged in page and an absence of any way to get to the dashboard.
> I heard from the UX person on the project that "there won't be a 
> public home page if they're signed in".
>
> Sites like Facebook and Twitter have completely different content at 
> the root URL, but there are two major differences I see:
>
> A. We have a lot more than a login form on the not-logged in home page 
> - videos, marketing materials and overviews of services.
> B. We are not Facebook or Twitter
>
> Is it that big of a deal to make a significant amount of mostly 
> marketing material unavailable to users after they have logged in?
>
> What are your thoughts? If we are going to hide the content what is 
> the best way to do it? redirect logged in users to the dashboard from 
> / or replace the content of / with the dashboard?
>
> What would be the best way of explaining the problem I see so if I end 
> up being overruled, I'll know I did everything I could?
>
>
>
> --
> Erik Mattheis
>
> http://www.flickr.com/gelk


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