Quick Blogger Home Page Redesign

In this post I do a quick redesign of the Blogger home page to make it less confusing and more consistent.

Blogger home page

If I am signed into my Blogger account I can access my blogger home page by navigating to www.blogger.com.

My Blogger home page contains a list of all of my blogs and blogs on my reading list. Here is what the top of my blog home page looks like now:

Any designer could come up with ways of making this page more pretty, but I am more concerned about making quick changes that will improve the user experience and will not require significant time to fix.

 Here is another screenshot with some annotations (some irrelevant items removed for clarity):

Here is a screenshot without my notes:

Here is a screenshot with my notes:

This is my revised blog home page with notes

As a designer I would like more info about how often users click on "View blog" and "Posts" buttons to see if those are even necessary on this page. I would also like the screen that is opened when I click "Dashboard" to actually have a title ("Blog Dashboard" would work). I prefer "Dashboard" to "Options," because the dashboard allows you to view data such as page stats for your blog, not just change options. However, some usability testing might be helpful to know if this button is named correctly.

So, let me know what you think of this redesign.