Re: [Sigia-l] Mixed lists

Louise Hewitt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.sigia
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Hi Peter,

Nice post.

We are redeveloping our corporate site and are using WordPress so that  
we can easily populate and repurpose content. As a result we've  
created a mixed list of recent items on the home page - don't know if  
this fits your model, but it goes something like this:

dd-mm-yyyy
NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

dd-mm-yyyy
NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

dd-mm-yyyy
BLOG - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

dd-mm-yyyy
JOB - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

dd-mm-yyyy
NEWS - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

dd-mm-yyyy
CLIENT - Lorum ipsum blah blah blah

Seemed like a nice way of keeping things updated without cluttering  
the interface with loads of different elements.

User sees a list of new stuff, Labels tell the users what kind of  
stuff each new thing is 1+ 1 bit of mental processing

instead of

User sees a list of new stuff, new stuff is type blah, User sees a  
list of new stuff, new stuff is type blah, User sees a list of new  
stuff, new stuff is type blah,
1+1(n) bits of mental processing.

Does anyone have any examples to hand of other sites that use this  
pattern? If for no other reason than to convince my devs it's a good  
idea!

Ta,

Lou.

On 21 Feb 2009, at 13:36, Peter Van Dijck wrote:

> I wrote a blogpost on the tendency to focus attention with mixed  
> lists,
> would love feedback/thoughts/other examples:
> http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/02/21/4459/mixed-lists
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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