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My two cents: I'd change the design: I'd make the front page more like Google. (Search box in the middle) And your site is full of features - like "Browse bab
by tyohn 18y ago
My two cents: I'd change the design: I'd make the front page more like Google. (Search box in the middle)
And your site is full of features - like "Browse baby names..." and "We have amazing maps..." those thing are features - what you need to do is list the benefits. You should tell the users what value they get. Example: Our coats have double lining = feature: Our coats keep you warmer = value.
And from a users experience point of view: The site isn't very instructive and its hard to navigate.
For me I want to use the site to find the least "popular" name - I guess a user can figure it out by your maps and boxes - But wouldn't it be great to just type in a name and get a page back with a "name popularity" map? Or if I need suggestion for names maybe you could do that too via popularity - by entering a state?
Like I said just my two cents.
- brfox 18y agoThanks for the feedback about features vs value. When we picked out baby names, the first letter was really important (to name the kid after an older family member) for browsing names, but I guess some people want to search for a specific name. I used to have the tables sortable, so we could re-sort the names based on least popular. The idea behind the clusters is that if you like a popular name, but it is too popular, then you can immediately look at its "cluster" and see all of the related names, then pick the least popular variant.