Here is a very rough heatmap of how people look at landscape screens overlayed on top of one of the examples from the UI exploration.
Red = people look often here
Green = people dont look often here
The help button in the top-left corner provides information on a proposed workflow for the currently selected workbench.
The reason why the heatmap is this way is probably because you also read books this way and people got used to it (maybe except some asian countries, where its different). There have been studies performed on this - I have read them some years ago - but I cannot remember what they were specifically called and thus cannot find them. If you know of any study on this topic, please post a link.
Now you can see why I have chosen to put the help button in the top, left corner. This is the location of where someone, who is panicing, would look at for help. I have worked on defense projects, where it has been done in the exact same way, also for the same reason. Most websites use this location for the "home" link, usually represented by the website icon.
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