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StavrosK, I hope that you've posted this looking for some feedback, because after seeing your site I really wanted to give you some constructive criticism. If
by jason_tko 13y ago
StavrosK, I hope that you've posted this looking for some feedback, because after seeing your site I really wanted to give you some constructive criticism.
If you want more people to use it, I'd suggest making your site more clear and easy to understand. I find it extremely frustrating now. Let me take you through what's going through my mind. Firstly, I have to tilt my head looking at a half formed image, and even then, I have trouble wrapping my head around what's going on.
I look to the right, and it's asking me to log in. Ok, but log into what? I thought this was a browser plugin? My two choices are Log in or "Persona" ?
Still struggling, I carefully read the description text in the bottom right (however at this point, you've already lost 99% of your audience).
"Just drag the browser button to your bookmarks bar to install." Great! Let's try it out. Wait, what browser button? I try clicking and dragging around everything that resembles a browser button, but I can't figure it out. At this point, I give up.
It's very frustrating, and it's a shame, because it's probably well made.
To make it better, I'd explore doing the following:
First, the low hanging fruit. Move your "Share your links, easily!" to the top bar. The second 'heading bar' doesn't add anything, and is distracting. I'd also come up with a better tag-line too, one that's less generic. "0.7 seconds to send interesting stuff to your friend!" "Need to share? 'Share now! Copy/paste' is more like 'Copy/waste of time'. 2 fast clicks and you're done."
Obviously, I wrote these quickly and need a bunch more thought.
Then, I want to see screenshots of what it actually does.
[Picture 1 - I see an interesting site, I want to share it!]
[Picture 2 - I click a button, select the people, and click done]
[Picture 3 - I make a coffee, because picture 3 is unnecessary, we're already done here]
Then, once I'm interested in it, I want to see how to install it. Once again, ideally with screenshots and a very easy button that shows me where to click and drag. Ideally, detecting browsers and showing browser specific instructions.
Of course, none of this stuff will actually save you if this doesn't turn out to be what people consider 'a real problem' worth investing the time and effort to solve, even if it's just 3 seconds to install the browser add-on. But following this advice and making the value proposition and instructions to install it, will help you get that feedback, since you'll be removing the considerable barriers currently in place to get people to give it a shot.
All the best and I hope everything goes really well!
- StavrosK 13y agoHey Jason, thank you for your feedback. You're completely right, of course, the current landing page doesn't do much to explain what the service does or how it does it. I'll try to add a video or carousel showing exactly how it works, with a more standard workflow. I agree that asking the user to log in is kind of abrupt there, now that you mention it I realize it's not very well thought-out. This will be my first priority, thank you very much for the feedback and the improvements you proposed.