I may not be a good test subject because an "another life" I was a tech in a usability lab for an OEM, but let's go anyway.

Experiment 1: Before the page loads, I'm looking at the autofill to see if it brings up steemit. It does. Hit enter.

First place my eyes go is top... "Welcome to the Blockchain." Most valuable real estate on the page.

(side note: That's a change-- it used to be top-left, when we had predominantly left navigation.)

Experiment 2: Eyes top to the title; then shift to study user's avatar.

Experiment 3: Eyes top to center of the blue header bar, to your username-- most contrasty and visible. I noticed here that my eyes actually "swept" there from loosely looking at the space in the blue above the word "Blog." Old habits, I guess... based on where I expect the "bang" on the page to be.

Another piece of random commentary: I'm an older user (mid-50's) with nearly 25 years doing things online. The thing I am struggling the MOST to adapt to (af all web changes over the years) is using web sites clearly designed for mobile... on a desktop or laptop. I still have to remind myself to scroll down when all I see on the page is a solid block of color with two words (or NO words) sitting there... and I'm thinking "Where's the effing web site???"

I appreciate the minimalistic look, but let's for God's sake have at least a little visible navigation, or something!