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The breakdown of the OKCupid process has these two comments about illustrations: 1. Illustration of smiling high confidence person draws you in. 2. Th
by dfc 12y ago
The breakdown of the OKCupid process has these two comments about illustrations:
1. Illustration of smiling high confidence person draws you in.
2. The illustration feels a bit flat and 'uncanny-valley-ish.' it leaves an
impersonal impression, but that might be the intent (i.e. you get the
personal stuff when you log in)
Would you be surprised to learn that these comments are about the same illustration? I was. I clicked back and forth 4-5 times to make sure I was not missing something. A lot of the comments made it seem like I was listening to Foamy the Squirrel give stream of consciousness impressions as he signed up for online dating.
- samuelhulick 12y agoI appreciate the critique, but it's not like an object can't have more than one quality. :) In this case, an illustration was both crudely presented while simultaneously being more personable than, say, a block of text. I'm not sure where the "gotcha" here is.
- dfc 12y agoYou really think those descriptions are compatible? I don't mean compatible like "sort-a prominent sorta-not position," I am talking about not mutually exclusive. Uncanny valley has never been something that I imagined being drawn to.
- samuelhulick 12y agoYeah, fair point.