Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ...
by hinkley on Monday August 27, 2018 @01:24PM
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As a class we are notoriously bad about burying the lede.
I’m not sure where that comes from, but I have to fight it constantly. My key piece of advice on wiki page design, for instance, is that the first question the person has is “am I even in the right place?”. The first or second sentence has to tell someone why they should care about (or not!) the rest of the page.
And I find myself violating that advice at least once a week. It’s hard but then most important things are.
I’m not sure where that comes from, but I have to fight it constantly. My key piece of advice on wiki page design, for instance, is that the first question the person has is “am I even in the right place?”. The first or second sentence has to tell someone why they should care about (or not!) the rest of the page.
And I find myself violating that advice at least once a week. It’s hard but then most important things are.