Profile #1: No Expectations -- very low need to motivate users or to deliver any substantial content.

The few examples of this profile are likely to be personal homepages. Personal homepages are often created for the designer, the person who "owns" the homepage, with little consideration for audience need. While most homepages do take the audience into account, an example of one that does not is Kevin Benko's personal homepage: The Square Peg.

The user will notice upon visiting this Web site that the designer states this homepage is for his own purposes, and he does not care what anyone else thinks of it. Guidelines are somewhat beside the point if a designer is working in this profile, since the motivational and informational goals of the Web site are both low.

(This page states that it will "go down" sometime in June, 1997 ... presuming that means it will go away, the authors are searching for another great example like this one and we appreciate all suggestions!)

AMTEC 1997 Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Elizabeth Boling, Barbara Bichelmeyer, Kurt Squire, Sonny Kirkley
Indiana University
Last updated 1 June 1997
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~iirg/RESEARCH/AMTEC97/profile1.html