Live data from Hacker News

Early Quora Design Notes

artypapers.com

31–32 of 32 posts

Re: Early Quora Design Notes

#31

(Disclaimer: I gave up on Quora months ago – maybe they've fixed these things) I desperately wish I could effectively convey how bad I think Quora's implementation is. I'll try now. The visual design is simple, if bland, but that's not my beef. Simple is usually good. I think it mostly hinges around discovery and sense of place. On Quora, it never feels like you are anywhere. No sense of hierarchy, no sense of order.…

Quora has the benefit of founders with a solid network, so the early adopters are heavy hitters with interesting things to say. It's a shame, then, that the user experience is just so... tepid. I'm not really qualified to comment, as I've only encountered Quora via deep links, and sometimes some additional clicking around. But the above summarizes my impression, both from my own limited interaction and from the limit…

Yes exactly, the next Friendfeed / Buzz where the elites can hang out before the masses get there.

Re: Early Quora Design Notes

#32

To be honest for a long time I thought Quora was a stack exchange site with a different skin; I only ever saw the q&a pages. In the article he actually says he took 3 months to get the q&a page design done, interesting that they ended up with a design for that page that is so uncannily similar to SO's. I appreciate that the reward mechanism is different and I can't comment on the home page as it is behind a signup pa…

The designer is a she, Rebekah Cox.

Whoops!
Post reply on HN