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I hate the stock images on the front page. Should these be webcam video streams?
by Sujan 15y ago
I hate the stock images on the front page. Should these be webcam video streams?
- kurtvarner 15y agoThese details are not super important for the version one launch. Very few "normal" people will notice.
- davej 15y agoThey will notice that they look more like photographs than still frames from a webcam chat. My initial reaction was that they were profile images representing the people involved in the chat. I have a hunch that "normal" people will think the same. Otherwise, the product looks very interesting, looking forward to having an opportunity to try it out.
- kristianc 15y agoI agree, I actually came back to comment on this. The issue isn't so much that they're stock images per se - more that they don't give me an idea of what the product actually looks like in use.
- twalling 15y agoAgreed. My initial impression was those photos were static implying that the service was audio chat only. I went looking through the features to see if video chat was possible.
- jcc80 15y agoI somewhat agree that "normal" folks won't notice - at least they wouldn't specifically mention anything about stock photos (and these don't look terribly "stocky" compared to others). But, overall the trust or incentive to take the next step that needs to be captured in the first 5-15 seconds will be lower. Even if they can't express it, it just wouldn't feel right in their subconscious. Also, if possible have the photos set up so the person is facing towards the action you want them to take - the get a meeting room button. Anyways, just a tip, I think it looks very clean overall. And, just went to a meeting room and the onboarding is great. I was in a meeting room within 10 seconds - very nice.
- hornbaker 15y agoYeah, kind of a turnoff for me, too. Try to find some authentic pics there.
- denismars 15y agoit's just a start for version 1, day 1, but point taken - happy to place better pics so email us your screenshots at team at meetings.io and we'll put up the best ones :-)
- Sujan 15y agoYou're a team, so just use pictures of yourself. Should be possible on day 2 ;)
- pault 15y agoSorry to hijack the thread, but are you planning on raising the 5 person cap? We are an eight person distributed team, and gotomeeting only allows 6 cameras at a time, so the last two people to the meeting are always getting ignored. I would happily accept a lower quality feed if we could get 10+ people in a single room.
- aik 15y agoI think what makes it confusing for me is that the link between the pictures isn't hugely clear. If it could be more clear that there's actually a meeting taking place, it could be easier to make the link. ie. have some similar object or other attribute in each that assists the mind in forming a connection.