Duuble: microblogging diary
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Duuble: microblogging diary
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#2A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.
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#3First Impression: For some reason, unless I can see an example of exactly what this looks like / a demo I can't see myself signing up.
Signing up was fairly quick. However making my first post was a little troublesome: Hitting the "enter" button when didn't seem to post anything. The overall feel here feels less like a diary and more like a self-contained twitter feed. I think it's the atmosphere of the application that is throwing me off the most.
Congrats on shipping a product though! I'll continue to try it out.
Re: Duuble: microblogging diary
#4First Impression: For some reason, unless I can see an example of exactly what this looks like / a demo I can't see myself signing up. Signing up was fairly quick. However making my first post was a little troublesome: Hitting the "enter" button when didn't seem to post anything. The overall feel here feels less like a diary and more like a self-contained twitter feed. I think it's the atmosphere of the application t…
Thanks for the feedback! We'll try to add a working demo, or at least some screenshots! For the UI, we'll tweak it a bit too!
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#5A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.
Hmm.. Swapping diaries, that sounds like an idea we could add in!
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#6I think a demo is definitely needed on the homepage to convert signups.
Design wise, just be careful with using such light grey text on white background, as you can barely read some things. For example, the "bars" layout is unreadable on my screen unless you hover over a post.
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#7Are metal umlauts the new left out vowels for Web 2.x? Will we see "flickr" renamed to "flïckër"?
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#8Well done on shipping. Here are some things that can be improved:
1. Increase the font-size from 13px to 16px and set line-height 24px to make the type friendly.
2. Increase the height of your input fields and buttons to 28px to make them easier to focus and click on.
3. For the diary image on your front page, show a diary that has something written in it. Even better, show a screenshot of a Duuble diary.
4. Combine "First name" and "Last name" fields into "Your Name" for better internationalization and less visual elements / tabbing.
5. Move the "Tweet" button away from your sign up form to top right of the page. Use the official Twitter button. People are used to it.
6. The "Read more about Duuble" button should be a link not a button.
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#9Are metal umlauts the new left out vowels for Web 2.x? Will we see "flickr" renamed to "flïckër"?
Well, it's not really an 'ü', we are officially 'Duuble', not 'Düüble'. The dots above the 'u's are meant to complete the smiling faces :)
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#10Well done on shipping. Here are some things that can be improved: 1. Increase the font-size from 13px to 16px and set line-height 24px to make the type friendly. 2. Increase the height of your input fields and buttons to 28px to make them easier to focus and click on. 3. For the diary image on your front page, show a diary that has something written in it. Even better, show a screenshot of a Duuble diary. 4. Combine…
Woah, that's quite a list. Thanks though!