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In your responses here you state you are aiming this product at the masses. So I'm going to attempt to review your site from this angle. Before putting on my t

In your responses here you state you are aiming this product at the masses. So I'm going to attempt to review your site from this angle. Before putting on my typical user hat let me say that I like the concept quite a bit and the site design is very nice. I am putting my 'mass market consumer' hat which means I'm pressing the back button in 10 seconds unless something good happens. I see discover. bookmark. share. But these are kind of vague... (I would A/B test this heading) But intriguing enough for me to checkout the tour. Next I see what looks like a movie/slides. I press play and see the instructions are "click on play icon to view". I press play and get to the "what is favilous?" slide but then nothing happens. I don't really see another play button anywhere. This happens when I remove my mouse from the play task bar and unless I go back over it don't see it again. The play button to the lower right of the mouse if quite small and hard to see. Maybe think about either explicitly stating to keep pressing play or clicking the screen to keep the slideshow going or turning this into something more like a movie. The slideshow itself is of very high quality but the initial slides highlight features. The entire time I was asking myself... I want to see this thing in action. Take me through a typical user experience with the app. What can this app do for me? This doesn't happen until much later on. I would make the slides more into a story about what a first time user would do and how this would be useful to me - a casual user. Feel free to email me if you have additional questions.

sw1205 17y ago
Thanks very much for this. I can see that quite a few people are struggling with the playing of the tour - we will have to make this more obvious. I don't think Prezi offer an easy autoplay option. You are right with regard to the user experience and this is something that again we are rolling out in the next two weeks. We have made a video of a user bookmarking, discovering and doing other bits and pieces to do with the site. We will post this somewhere on the site (still to be decided!) and hopefully this can solve this issue as you are right from the homepage you still don't get a complete feel as to what Favilous does. May well take you up on the email option - thank you for this. Also, we are offering a yammer style service to the worker (see my comments below). Would like to know what you think of this? thanks
- NEPatriot 17y ago
  I would post this video right smack on the home page. To the right of the signup/tour buttons and try to make it btwn 30-90 seconds. Maybe with a heading like... See it in Action. And to stay consistent with the high end feel of your site I would try to make the video high quality. Yes. Email away - I love providing feedback. While I do think a yammer style service would be useful I would try to focus on one thing and really knock it out of the park. If you are making the choice to pivot your product towards a yammer/bookmarking combo product that is new tech this is a new hypothesis and should be part of your overall strategy. As opposed to adding bells and whistles. In my office, we all have common links... email, time tracking, bug tracking, PM web app, etc. And having a centralized bookmarking network would be useful. Especially if I could publish a bookmark to say all the sales people and say - read this o sales people it's useful. But you would have to ask people in management (which I am not) for a more important opinion since they are ultimately the ones making this decision. Or aim this new product at the front line employees and move it up the chain verses down.

sw1205 17y ago

Thanks very much for this. I can see that quite a few people are struggling with the playing of the tour - we will have to make this more obvious. I don't think Prezi offer an easy autoplay option. You are right with regard to the user experience and this is something that again we are rolling out in the next two weeks. We have made a video of a user bookmarking, discovering and doing other bits and pieces to do with the site. We will post this somewhere on the site (still to be decided!) and hopefully this can solve this issue as you are right from the homepage you still don't get a complete feel as to what Favilous does. May well take you up on the email option - thank you for this. Also, we are offering a yammer style service to the worker (see my comments below). Would like to know what you think of this? thanks

NEPatriot 17y ago
I would post this video right smack on the home page. To the right of the signup/tour buttons and try to make it btwn 30-90 seconds. Maybe with a heading like... See it in Action. And to stay consistent with the high end feel of your site I would try to make the video high quality. Yes. Email away - I love providing feedback. While I do think a yammer style service would be useful I would try to focus on one thing and really knock it out of the park. If you are making the choice to pivot your product towards a yammer/bookmarking combo product that is new tech this is a new hypothesis and should be part of your overall strategy. As opposed to adding bells and whistles. In my office, we all have common links... email, time tracking, bug tracking, PM web app, etc. And having a centralized bookmarking network would be useful. Especially if I could publish a bookmark to say all the sales people and say - read this o sales people it's useful. But you would have to ask people in management (which I am not) for a more important opinion since they are ultimately the ones making this decision. Or aim this new product at the front line employees and move it up the chain verses down.