I think the problems are pretty much 100% visual presentation. My eye isn't drawn to anything. You have a standard font for a name. Make it closer to a logo, a

I think the problems are pretty much 100% visual presentation. My eye isn't drawn to anything. You have a standard font for a name. Make it closer to a logo, and much bigger. It's ok to center it, but the whole top area is centered, and doesn't look good. The red line + highlighted line highlights neither. Then the horizontal line of users is confusing. Make it a grid and put it in a sidebar. I like the score idea, but draw in the the user to want to get that score up. Perhaps mirror twitter.grader.com and just let a user enter their twitter username to find some fake score that can be improved by using the site. I played around with balsamiq for a bit, and made this: http://ivankirigin.posterous.com/balsamiq-is-a-hell-of-a-tool http://ivankirigin.posterous.com/balsamiq-is-a-hell-of-a-too... I'm obviously not a UI designer. I'd totally a Python geek. I would try to copy other sites more, though.