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Shameless plug : We sell high-end digital watches ( != smart watch ) at www.slyde.ch Feedback appreciated.

by fla 12y ago

marincounty 12y ago
They are just fancy jump hour watches? Or, am I missing something?
notjustanymike 12y ago
Well if you insist. You website and products looks like they were happier in the Adobe Flash era of the Internet. The navigation is a disaster; small horizontal bars with lethargic animations make me dread trying to get anywhere on the site. The font selection and logo look like you told a design intern to make something look expensive. Size wise, your website is 1,600 pixels wide. 1,600! This means you'll see horizontal scrollbars on a 15" Macbook Pro. Since it's not even remotely responsive, you've eliminated anyone coming to your site on a mobile device and even the iPad retina in portrait mode. If you can't be bothered to make it responsive (not really challenging considering the limited amount of content) at least make a mobile optimized site. Then there are pages like this: https://www.slyde.ch/en/concept/engine https://www.slyde.ch/en/concept/engine There is no reason the text should scroll on a page like that. It's a drab wall of text with no formatting, links, or really any kind of structure. Why have you made a boring wall of text -harder- to read? Why is there a carousel navigation at the bottom of the page? Circles like this are traditionally used in carousels (which themselves are universally hated), and not for entire pages. I have no idea where those buttons lead and I'm pretty sure lots of people miss them (you could test that with Google Analytics). The confusion here is compounded, since they -do- work as a carousel on the homepage. Regarding the watchfaces: am I correct in seeing you're selling these for $100 per engine?! Do you expect to compete on any meaningful level with the iWatch and Android Wear? Or is this one of those 'premium' experiences that certain people are happy to pay for? So, all in all my feedback is this looks like a site trying to be premium without a clear understanding of what the word means.
- fla 12y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. I coudn't agree more with the remarks you made about the website. It defenately needs some improvements. > Regarding the watchfaces: am I correct in seeing you're selling these for $100 per engine?! Yes. These watch faces (we call them virtual engines) are created by professional watch designers. > Do you expect to compete on any meaningful level with the iWatch and Android Wear? Or is this one of those 'premium' experiences that certain people are happy to pay for? No, because we are not a smart watch, simply an high-end digital watch. The product is premium by its materials and craftmanship. (For example: The Slyde is water resistant up to 30m). > So, all in all my feedback is this looks like a site trying to be premium without a clear understanding of what the word means. Point taken, there is defenately some things we have to improve with the communication. Thanks for you feedback!
  - notjustanymike 12y ago
    Glad to give feedback on the site, but I have to call bullshit on the 'virtual engines'. "virtual engines" ... that's fantastic! If you simply called them 'watchfaces' you might have to give them away like your competitors. Charging $100 for a digital watchface is so amazingly brazen it could only be done if you had nothing but contempt for your customers intelligence. Or perhaps you're targeting the fools with more money than sense (such a wonderful market if you can get in it). Serious question though: how will you compete with the iWatch and MotoX? They have vastly more features and a hardware design at the very least on the same level. Combined with app ecosystems and a solid app distribution network, it's going to be a short amount of time before iWatch 'virtual engines' come out at a fraction of your price.

Shameless plug : We sell high-end digital watches ( != smart watch ) at www.slyde.ch Feedback appreciated.

by fla 12y ago

Shameless plug : We sell high-end digital watches ( != smart watch ) at www.slyde.ch Feedback appreciated.

marincounty 12y ago

They are just fancy jump hour watches? Or, am I missing something?

notjustanymike 12y ago

Well if you insist. You website and products looks like they were happier in the Adobe Flash era of the Internet. The navigation is a disaster; small horizontal bars with lethargic animations make me dread trying to get anywhere on the site. The font selection and logo look like you told a design intern to make something look expensive. Size wise, your website is 1,600 pixels wide. 1,600! This means you'll see horizontal scrollbars on a 15" Macbook Pro. Since it's not even remotely responsive, you've eliminated anyone coming to your site on a mobile device and even the iPad retina in portrait mode. If you can't be bothered to make it responsive (not really challenging considering the limited amount of content) at least make a mobile optimized site. Then there are pages like this: https://www.slyde.ch/en/concept/engine https://www.slyde.ch/en/concept/engine There is no reason the text should scroll on a page like that. It's a drab wall of text with no formatting, links, or really any kind of structure. Why have you made a boring wall of text -harder- to read? Why is there a carousel navigation at the bottom of the page? Circles like this are traditionally used in carousels (which themselves are universally hated), and not for entire pages. I have no idea where those buttons lead and I'm pretty sure lots of people miss them (you could test that with Google Analytics). The confusion here is compounded, since they -do- work as a carousel on the homepage. Regarding the watchfaces: am I correct in seeing you're selling these for $100 per engine?! Do you expect to compete on any meaningful level with the iWatch and Android Wear? Or is this one of those 'premium' experiences that certain people are happy to pay for? So, all in all my feedback is this looks like a site trying to be premium without a clear understanding of what the word means.

fla 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I coudn't agree more with the remarks you made about the website. It defenately needs some improvements. > Regarding the watchfaces: am I correct in seeing you're selling these for $100 per engine?! Yes. These watch faces (we call them virtual engines) are created by professional watch designers. > Do you expect to compete on any meaningful level with the iWatch and Android Wear? Or is this one of those 'premium' experiences that certain people are happy to pay for? No, because we are not a smart watch, simply an high-end digital watch. The product is premium by its materials and craftmanship. (For example: The Slyde is water resistant up to 30m). > So, all in all my feedback is this looks like a site trying to be premium without a clear understanding of what the word means. Point taken, there is defenately some things we have to improve with the communication. Thanks for you feedback!
- notjustanymike 12y ago
  Glad to give feedback on the site, but I have to call bullshit on the 'virtual engines'. "virtual engines" ... that's fantastic! If you simply called them 'watchfaces' you might have to give them away like your competitors. Charging $100 for a digital watchface is so amazingly brazen it could only be done if you had nothing but contempt for your customers intelligence. Or perhaps you're targeting the fools with more money than sense (such a wonderful market if you can get in it). Serious question though: how will you compete with the iWatch and MotoX? They have vastly more features and a hardware design at the very least on the same level. Combined with app ecosystems and a solid app distribution network, it's going to be a short amount of time before iWatch 'virtual engines' come out at a fraction of your price.