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Evolution of the Home Page Design

by Jakob Nielsen, May 1995
Part of article about the design of Sun's website in 1995.

Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5 Version 6 Version 7 Version 8 Published version Miniatures of nine home page designs

We went through at least 15 different designs for the home page. This figure shows the major variations. Most, but not all, of these designs were subjected to usability testing. Click on a page miniature to learn more about it.

Please note that none of these pages are active: they are just screendumps at this stage.