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Video is something we hadn't thought of, thanks for suggesting it. I'll do a proper ROI calculation and figure out how many uniques we'd have to get to make tha
by gsaines 17y ago
Video is something we hadn't thought of, thanks for suggesting it. I'll do a proper ROI calculation and figure out how many uniques we'd have to get to make that worth our while. I also majored in Cinema Studies, and have a lot experience making videos, so it would be fun and easy for me to produce quality material, its just a question of recouping our costs.
We've been trying to ramp up the blogging recently, and it's good to know that it takes a while for it to affect pagerank. We were getting down because it hasn't given us a big quick boost. We're dedicated to continuing a lot of blogging though (most of which I'm doing now).
There are a few internet forums for this, and I'm a member, but I don't participate regularly, maybe I should change that.
Usability has been (pardon my French) a bitch. I thought I had a great UI eye when we first started. After 3 sitewide redesigns, 4 iterations of the vocabulary interface, and numerous leaky conversion steps later, I'm pretty humbled. Do you have any specific recommendations for UI reading? I pay attention to Nielson, I've read Landing Page Optimization, and Call to Action, but I'm only starting to put their lessons to use.
- gruseom 17y agoDo you have any specific recommendations for UI reading? You should read Don't Make Me Think if you haven't yet.
- jonah 17y agoSecond Krug's book. It's UI 101 and really well done. I used it as the textbook when I taught.
- iamelgringo 17y agoUsability has been (pardon my French) a bitch. I thought I had a great UI eye when we first started. Usability is really hard to get right. And, companies like Apple spend a lot of money on usability and design. So, don't feel bad that it's hard. I'd suggest letting Mechanical Turkers find usability problems for you. When I launched my social news site (now defunct), I asked Turkers to use my site, and post a comment if anything was confusing or could be streamlined. They gave me a lot of great feedback for $0.10 a piece. Turkers are surprisingly well educated and tech savvy. I use the service every time I can.
- eru 17y agoOr find `real' humans to test. You can recruit students or so.