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[Paul Hummer <paul.hummer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:21:09 +0200
Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Having said that, I am sorry to say that I find the current location
> a Bad Choice, too. Frankly, I am surprised this passed UI review at
> all. Three reasons for that:

I'm not sure why you're surprised this passed UI review, and that may
be because there's a bit of confusion as to what a UI review is.  A UI
is not a QA review.  It's simply not realistic to go through every
affected page and see what might be changed.  I trust the submitter
to have thought about that, and demonstrate it in the UI review.  As a
UI reviewer, I look at the UI a submitter presents to me, and I think
about things that would make this change specifically bad. If I can't
think of anything, I think of something that might make it better.  In
this case, I didn't have either.  That's how it passed UI review.

If you want my opinion, I think the registration section would be
better if it was out of the crowded (and valuable) top area entirely.
At the very least, in most "code" cases I think it's just noise anyway.

That being said, the best UI reviews are reviews given to us by our
users (in this case, it's you! :)  On that alone I think it's worth
implementing your change and see what the other users say.  If Curtis
is okay with it, I certainly would like to see it out.  Essentially,
you have a week and a half before you're completely committed to the UI
for a month (release to release), so experimentation should be
encouraged, especially in small changes like this.

Cheers,
Paul