There's been some great feedback to the intial RFC for the Bazaar Home Page Redesign (for the mailing list thread). One of the things that became clear in the feedback is that we don't have a good sense of who the home page is for and what it's trying to get those people to do. I've written up a set of three different people that I want to "sell" Bazaar to. Want to know who they are? Hop over to the Bazaar Personas page, or join the Bazaar mailing list to take part in the discussion.

From the Bazaar Personas page:

Who comes to the front page of the Bazaar Web site? We need to know this to get the BazaarHomePageRedesign right.

Let's pretend that Bazaar is a product you can buy. That allows us to use fun and vomit inducing terms like "sales conversion" and "unique selling proposition." The front page of the Bazaar site must pitch solutions to potential customers in a way that pulls them in past the front page where the real meat of the site happens. To know the right way to funnel people in, we need to know "who" we're dealing with. This document outlines different types of people who are landing on the front page that are potential customers. We'll use these personas to figure out how to funnel each type of person to an appropriate area of the site where they will ultimately choose to use Bazaar because it rocks.