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First off, that's a pretty k-rad design. Did you do it in-house or an outside firm? I have a few questions/thoughts: - What happens if the contents of a page
by timdorr 17y ago
First off, that's a pretty k-rad design. Did you do it in-house or an outside firm?
I have a few questions/thoughts:
- What happens if the contents of a page change? Do the notes go away or do you try and follow the content as it moves around?
- Have you thought about public sharing of these notes? I don't know if it's in your business plan, but it could be a fun thing to be able to mark up pages on the web and see others' notes while browsing. Could get noisy and be a UI issue, but it sounds neat :)
- I might change the "Click to try demo" button to be a little bit more clear what's going to happen when you click it. It's a great demo that shows off your product perfectly, but I was thinking I would be sent off to some other page and might have to go into some registration process. Two ways to handle this: Show the bar dimmed out and a button that says "Activate demo" or something to that effect. Or have the links say something to the effect of "Try the demo live on this page" so we understand it's just something quick. Again, it's really effective, so you should remove any apprehension about clicking that link.
- jack7890 17y agoI also love your design. Would love to know who you used.
- peterlai 17y agoWow, great questions, great feedback. 1. Design: We start with designs from 99designs.com. Then, we have Ryan (CEO and great with photoshop) heavily refine our selections. Afterwards, we convert the designs to html using psd2html services. Again, heavy refinement is needed before the code is actually usable. Here's a link to our previous design: http://blog.webnotes.net/image.axd?picture=webnotesnet.jpg http://blog.webnotes.net/image.axd?picture=webnotesnet.jpg 2. If the contents of the page change, we first try to relocate your highlights/notes. If your highlighted texts have disappeared, we add a "page changed" notification at the bottom of the screen which contains the text you originally highlighted. 3. We do think about public sharing of notes, though our primary focus is on improving research. Several other sites have focused upon social annotations without great success, and so we hesitate when considering such options. Also, the UI does seem tricky. If we were to implement more sharing-related features (you can already share annotated pages through email or permalink), UI would be of utmost importance to us. Several of our engineers have taken usability classes (6.831 was awesome!), and we pride ourselves in the simplicity of our product. 4. We are looking into implementing your suggestions. Thanks for pointing this out.