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One thing that is a little confusing about the site are the images at the bottom: They are too zoomed in... Are these images meant to be abstract? It's almos
by gm 18y ago
One thing that is a little confusing about the site are the images at the bottom: They are too zoomed in... Are these images meant to be abstract? It's almost like a puzzle to figure out what they are:
- The leftmost image: Just plug in your camera... Wait, didn't you skip the step where I install something on my computer? "Just plug in your camera and click share"... How will my computer know to send the images to your site? The image is a closeup of what will appear on a Windows XP computer. What about the Apple/Mac guy, or the Vista guy? What will they see?
It also has a link to the uploader app install description... But nothing near the link implies that. It appears the link tells you how to plug in your camera. Pretty misleading.
The uploader description then has only screenshots for Windows XP. If I have any other operating system, I am switching away from your site right about now...
- Ok, the second picture on the bottom. What is it a closeup of? Why do you closeup on nearly identical images? Is your site going to make four copies of every one of my pictures? Why? The topic of that is that you can forward the grid to whomever you like, but as I read that I am thinking about the significance of you having put up four, at first sight, identical Eiffel Towers. Zoom out the image, use different pictures (babies, animals, cars, etc...) and let it be obvious we are looking at the actual grid we are sending out.
- Third picture (sorry they are all misleading :-) !). WTF is that doing there? Do I actually now drag my pictures to that area that quite clearly says "drag photos here"? It appears not to be a screenshot at first. I have NO freeking idea what the screenshot if of, all I know is that I want to drag my photos to the stupid image that tells me to do so. I am guessing it is an area of your uploader... I don't know because I have not installed it yet (And you have not told me I have to install anything). This image is simply confusing. You only mention drag and drop near the bottom.
- Fourth area... OK, I know XP so I know that is a status icon saying I am uploading photos. But the text talks about how you upload full size photos. Not the best image you could have for this.
Hehe, I don't mean to come down hard on you, but the design of the main page could be better, aside from the thing I mentioned before, I truly have no freekin idea if you guys work with O/Ses other than XP.
You need to mention what OSes you support, you need to provide instructions with screenshots for each OS, And you need screenshots of at least the full window people are looking at, it is not the right time to present the user with a jigsaw puzzle of partial screen area images.
Too many shots of the Eiffel Tower. People don't shoot 24 photos of the same thing (and then run off to share them), at least not people to whom you are aiming your site.
Lastly :-)... you need a cleaner web design overall... Compare your site to smugmug.com, for example.
This is all meant to be constructive feedback, by the way. I would not waste the time it took to write this on trashing someone else. You guys are doing well, you just need minor adjustments.
EDIT: As a wannabe photographer I will ask you this: Why are your images all square? Do you resize them to be so? Practically no camera I know takes square photos... Will you crop my photos if I upload them to your site? Either don't use perfectly square photos in your samples, or tell me if you will modify my photos when I upload them.
- delconte 18y agoThanks for the feedback. This is exactly the kind of detailed feedback we were hoping for. A revised landing page is in the works. You gave us a ton more to think about :) RE: squares. We do create square thumbnails (it lets us fit a lot more on a page, especially at 1024x768). Clicking the thumbnails goes to a larger, correctly aspected version, and of course there's the original photo data as well.
- tstegart 18y agoyeah, I thought the repeated photographs were weird too, made me think I wasn't getting the idea or something. I would replace them with a set of photographs that are obviously related. Tell a small story. A lot of work, sure, but its your home page, make them good, even if they are a tiny part of a screen shot. This is where you get people's attention. You have the Eiffel Tower, what about other scenes from Paris or Europe as if the person was traveling? After all, people will identify with travel photographs, and hence identify with you (its one of the psychological points of selling, make yourself seem similar to the customer).