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this kind of form-over-function platitude is all well and good until you realise that conversions are 500% higher when you have your product's call-to-action bo
by fookyong 16y ago
this kind of form-over-function platitude is all well and good until you realise that conversions are 500% higher when you have your product's call-to-action box set at full opacity ;)
even more so when you've got employee mouths to feed. put money in the equation and a lot of design exploration of this type just becomes a waste of energy.
that said, nice idea!
- thecombjelly 16y agoWell actually it seems to be driving more traffic to my tutoring page. Compared to the volume I've had before from HN and the number of tutoring inquiries had, it seems to be much higher. Although currently that really has no statistical significance... I'll monitor things and see if it really matters or not.
- fookyong 16y agoanecdotally, I'm sure people are curious in the short term. but I'm pretty sure the current best practice for maximising CTR is to, well, make sure stuff is visible. feels silly to even dispute this.