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> Plentyoffish needs to hire a designer. I'd say he knows his target audience well enough to make that decision himself. There is indeed such a thing as being
by chime 17y ago
> Plentyoffish needs to hire a designer.
I'd say he knows his target audience well enough to make that decision himself. There is indeed such a thing as being too polished. The reason late-night TV commercials are cheesy and loud is not because the director lacks the skills but rather because it suits the target market. If POF redesigned their site to look like a glamor magazine website, he might indeed lose a lot of users because they might be intimidated by the design.
- pavs 17y agoIts doesn't even need to look like a glamor magazine website (none of the dating websites do). Even if he doesn't need to make the site look half decent, the design itself is broken. Thumbnails doesn't seem to be properly scaled, they seemed compressed in to a smaller version (I could be wrong but the thumbnails are screwed up for some reason) and what is this in ever profile? http://i.imgur.com/Knicz.png http://i.imgur.com/Knicz.png Its less than 5 minutes worth of work to fix that.
- dannyr 17y agoWhat matters to you may not matter to other people. A lot of people have been saying that Craigslist should have better design, more search options, etc but the site is still popular.
- cynicalkane 17y agoThe difference is that Craigslist has good design already, whereas POF does not.
- tortilla 17y agoI think I read that he actually mis-scales the images on purpose because of a higher click-thru rate.
- shib71 17y agohttp://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rolling-in.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol... On page 4 it discusses exactly that.
- iamdave 17y agoI wonder where he got that old version of Risk, that still uses the figurines. This new version with the arrows completely sucks.