Indeed. If something anchors our visual scanning from page to page, then doing a calculation which always takes the upper left as the best location starts to s

Indeed. If something anchors our visual scanning from page to page, then doing a calculation which always takes the upper left as the best location starts to seem very odd. In the case of the redesign, I would suggest that the big text box, which the user was just looking at on the home page, might play the role of visual anchor.