Irrational Exuberance

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A quick test for helping designers discover a little bit more about the preferences of their customers.

You are responding to this comment written by Peter Burns on January 3rd 2008, 23:33.

Interesting little test. #4 was tough for me. If there's relatively little body text, as displayed in the picture, then I prefer B, but if there's a lot of text in the main section (several pages), I prefer A.

Also, I'm not sure how intentional this is, but the drawings on the right are more vertical, and the drawings on the left are more horizontal. This was actually the biggest thing I noticed with #3, it took me several seconds to notice that the sidebar changed sides.

I scored a BABBBAAB. The first question looks like it might be a mild predictor of Ruby-web-style vs Python-web-style. The Python community is very content-driven, often using simple black text on white background. The Ruby community more frequently has a fixed-width container for content, and colors everywhere.

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@@ ruby
def a (b, c):
  b * c
end
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 ### This is an h3 title
#### This is an h4 title
**this is bold**
*this is italics*

1. This is an
2. ordered list

* And an unordered
* list too

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