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Hi, I'm an engineer building Polar Polls. This is an example of one of our realtime poll results dashboards. We've built some cool tools for building beautif

Hi, I'm an engineer building Polar Polls. This is an example of one of our realtime poll results dashboards. We've built some cool tools for building beautiful, photo polls and the ability to embed them anywhere on the web. http://polarb.com/ http://polarb.com/

MBCook 13y ago
I understand that you want me to know that people are voting right now, but the yellow flashes are incredibly distracting and made trying to view all the poll results very difficult.
- sdrothrock 13y ago
  I agree. I was looking at the site trying to figure out what was going on and the yellow flashes just kept grabbing my attention.
takeda64 13y ago
By using cursor key for voting you dramatically decreased usability, for example I no longer can use Platform Key (Win/Command) key + left arrow to go back to previous page.
- kevincrane 13y ago
  Normally I'd agree with you (e.g. I hate Blogspot because they hijack Alt-Left for back also), but in this case I actually liked the arrow keys for voting because they were quick and simple. I voted on probably ~5 screens in just a few seconds and felt really smooth.
  - oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
    Why not do both: support cursor keys for voting, but leave meta+ key events alone?
villek 13y ago
It's nice to see people are actively voting, but I'm way more interested in the data than the too rapidly flashing yellow. Just changing the numbers and flashing the font bold (or some other effect on only the number) when new votes come in should be sufficient to make it clear the number are updated realtime. But I'm no designer so what do I know ;)
alphakappa 13y ago
This was not a pleasant experience. Half my screen (horizontally) was taken up by a blank UI element, while the actual screenshots were scrunched together on the right. It took me a while to realize that they were two screenshots next to each other. Others have mentioned the flashing UI elements - if you wanted to show that things were updating in real time, you could've added the highlight to the votes themselves, instead of flashing a big rectangular area. Also, you are biasing voters by telling them that one is 'old' while the other is 'new'. Show two screenshots (hopefully, larger than the tiny ones you have right now), in some random orders, and let people vote without bias.

MBCook 13y ago

I understand that you want me to know that people are voting right now, but the yellow flashes are incredibly distracting and made trying to view all the poll results very difficult.

sdrothrock 13y ago
I agree. I was looking at the site trying to figure out what was going on and the yellow flashes just kept grabbing my attention.

takeda64 13y ago

By using cursor key for voting you dramatically decreased usability, for example I no longer can use Platform Key (Win/Command) key + left arrow to go back to previous page.

kevincrane 13y ago
Normally I'd agree with you (e.g. I hate Blogspot because they hijack Alt-Left for back also), but in this case I actually liked the arrow keys for voting because they were quick and simple. I voted on probably ~5 screens in just a few seconds and felt really smooth.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  Why not do both: support cursor keys for voting, but leave meta+ key events alone?

villek 13y ago

It's nice to see people are actively voting, but I'm way more interested in the data than the too rapidly flashing yellow. Just changing the numbers and flashing the font bold (or some other effect on only the number) when new votes come in should be sufficient to make it clear the number are updated realtime. But I'm no designer so what do I know ;)

alphakappa 13y ago

This was not a pleasant experience. Half my screen (horizontally) was taken up by a blank UI element, while the actual screenshots were scrunched together on the right. It took me a while to realize that they were two screenshots next to each other. Others have mentioned the flashing UI elements - if you wanted to show that things were updating in real time, you could've added the highlight to the votes themselves, instead of flashing a big rectangular area. Also, you are biasing voters by telling them that one is 'old' while the other is 'new'. Show two screenshots (hopefully, larger than the tiny ones you have right now), in some random orders, and let people vote without bias.