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Assembly's website has an incredibly beautiful design. But it's atrocious to use. 50% of the page is wasted in whitespace, another 30-40% in boilerplate and th
by debacle 12y ago
Assembly's website has an incredibly beautiful design.
But it's atrocious to use. 50% of the page is wasted in whitespace, another 30-40% in boilerplate and the use of the site is not intuitive. My cursor will change to a pointer when things aren't actually clickable and trying to use the slider causes text on the page to be selected.
Onto the actual application, it's impossible to determine how value is assigned, what a vote is, why I can vote if I'm logged out, what that means, etc.
This is a tool designed to be primarily used by smart, relatively technical people with copy and design directed towards your average Facebook user.
Edit: As a final note, your FAQ is 10 pages and almost 100 questions long. This creates a huge barrier to entry for new users. Many of those questions only exist due to inefficiencies in your UI. It's very daunting, and honestly I would never use this product for its intended purpose at this point.
- chrislloyd 12y agoHey debacle! I'm a front-end engineer at Assembly. We've pushed out a bunch of new features in the last couple of days and are still ironing out the edges. Namely, we shift from Kickstarter-style "product" pages (with even more boilerplate) to using feeds to help expose more content. The large header is going to be revisited pretty quickly as we unify the different sections on a product. I've created a Meta bounty with your feedback so you can follow our progress addressing it: https://assembly.com/meta/bounties/834 https://assembly.com/meta/bounties/834
- debacle 12y agoI signed up (ack) and replied with some of the UI bugs/issues that I found.