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Zero info on homepage = not interested.
I gave the front page a 2 sec scan and then you lost me.
PS: As a T2 diabetic, the site/product name had me half expecting to be visiting a site for managing blood glucose records.
- I cannot log in trough the extensions (on website it works fine)
- Font rendering of Chrome on windows is really crummy for custom fonts. Bug [1]. You can fix it by doing some custom font-face config [2] Screenshot [3] (Check the "C" contour)
- You are missing side padding on your input elements, and it is driving me nuts.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953037/google-webfonts-...
Zero info on homepage = not interested.
But yes, at LEAST show the tagline prominently on the page, and preferably have an elevator pitch right there too. You have 2 seconds to tell people what you do and why they should care. Don't waste it with "Here's a video, we're in beta, invite only, have a good day!"
Not sure i wan't to exchange my private bookmark collection with a cloud i know nothing about, without any privacy terms or even company information.
Regardless of the product itself, I think the name alone is going to turn people off.
Not wanting to watch the video, I was initially thinking this was some kind of diabetes management service based on the name.
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Not wanting to watch the video, I was initially thinking this was some kind of diabetes management service based on the name.
A fair point. In my excitement of finding an available domain, perhaps I tried to force the name :P
Yet. The problems addressed aren't the problems I have.
I'm wondering what kind of UX research was done putting this together. To me it looks like the research was hyper-focused, and didn't give the subjects enough scope to ask questions or bend the research away from optimization of kinetics and ask about their deeper goals, and this has inflected the goals of the product itself. I think this happens often in UX research, as well as psychology and sociology. (The three are related.)
For example. "Subject files bookmarks 0.5% faster" is not an interesting goal, but it is very easy to measure, which is why UX research often degenerates into wild local minima chases.
It feels good to get technical on a problem with a nice clean metric, it feels disciplined to value gains measured in a single percent or less. It feels like progress. But it can be little more than a distraction if there are bigger gains left on the table; worthy goals passed over because of the difficulty characterizing them and hence of evaluating the outcome of an attempt to achieve them.
To me, this is a shining example of how you can do everything right and still get it not quite right. That's the sort of thing that tells you your theory of how something works (UX innovation, in this case) can come apart from practice.
We sense this as an absence of insight, like the creator of the software didn't quite understand how we want to be with it.
That said, thumbprick shows promise, and insight is overrated. This is a near miss that could easily become a hit, check back soon.
HN: the negativity in this thread should be embarrassing.
You think the name will turn people off? Who cares. It's not your product, and no one is polling you for your opinion.
You think it's another bookmark synchronization tool? So what. Everything is just another something.
You think there is zero info on the homepage? Wrong. Theres a video that tells you exactly what the product offers in under a minute.
You think that 95% of the time went into the video? You have no support for this claim. It's a beta anyway.
None of these comments are constructive and it seems to me that they are only offered as a way for the poster to satisfy some self-aggrandizing superiority complex. Keep that garbage on reddit.
OP, don't let these comments discourage you. You may be onto something here.
Zero info on homepage = not interested.
