Try these 2 articles, first is about how to exercise properly and the second is how we destroy our feet using modern footwear and what to do about it:
http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...
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http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents...
People also don't seem to have the same level of confidence in themselves here. Kind of hard for me to understand as I am from what is considered the "greatest" country in the world. Hard to imagine what its like for someone growing up in the 3rd world. The only analogy I can draw is perhaps someone coming from a rich family vs someone coming from the ghetto.
There is way more competition now. Listen to what people are telling you.
I suck at picking colors that match, so this site is useful in generating a color scheme.
I think a lot depends on your budget. Vimeo's and youtube's sites are both clean and professional. Do you have the budget or design skills to do that sort of redesign? Looks like Khan academy was recently redesigned as it looks much better than the last time I went there. They might be a good template to use as the site is straightforward and doesn't try to be too fancy.
What I liked about the site is a little bit harder, as I hardly ever look for torrents. The site was clean and organized well. Liked how you had a lot of torrents organized together, such as the mike tyson link that has background info and all his fights.
I noticed a lot of the articles are submitted by you. It might be good to not show this on the main page as it gives the impression of a low quality site. It's fine to show this info on the article page itself, but showing on the home page only lets me scan down all the articles and see they were written by you.
The design of the site is a little jarring because somethings are really well designed, such as the buttons with nice gradient images, but the text of the button looks like minimal effort was put into it so it doesn't seem to fit. Thats probably the biggest complaint I have with the site. Imprving the typography will go a long way in your case.
Is the actual app using frames? I'm getting the dreaded horizontal scroll bar when I try to demo the app. The help is useful but it needs to be moved so I can keep it open and be able to change the map. Right now, the help covers the map when open.
When thinking how to change the layout, try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who has never used this before. Maybe rather than showing the map first, you can collect info from the user step by step and then draw the map from there and allow them to customize further.
I think the biggest general problem is that the pages are just one big mass of information. Very little white space or different background colors to highlight different sections of the site. On one page, you have search boxes, similar jobs, the specific job details, job description. Take a look at some web design sites such as http://webcreme.com/
You can get some good ideas from looking at other people's designs.
The Google Maps thing is nice, but is it really necessary? I was looking at it from the point of view of someone searching for a job. If I live in Miami and see a job posting for a position in Sarasota, its nice to see the mp but at the same time, I probably already know where Sarasota is in relation to Miami and about how far it is as well. So the question is, is this info useful? Or could the page be enhanced by using this space for something else. Sometimes, less is more and providing too much info to the user can backfire.
The Google analytics info can be looked at two ways. Yes, 10% of your users are clicking the map, which is good. But you could also look at it like this, 10% of your users are clicking a link which causes them to leave your site.
The date range still doesn't make sense because the field is called Posted Date, which implies one specific date when the job was posted. Most people will know what the current date is, so displaying this info to them is really unnecessary.
The first time I used this program, I was amazed. I had just started coding and here was a WYSIWG editor for data driven pages.
The program was buggy as hell and it was almost like learning another language the way I had to learn all the quirks of this program. But it gave me my start and I probably wouldn't have learned to code better if it had created halfway decent code.
If you click the pricing link at the top of the page, you go to http://disqourse.com/pricing/ but if you click the "Check out the pricing options. Try our FREE Plan!" link at the bottom of the product tour page, you go to http://www.smartupz.com/pricing/
Sorry I dont have more, but unfortunately, you left me with very little to criticize :-)
No problem and good luck with your site!
You have a ton of content on the home page and how it works page. You might consider dividing and rewriting this content into more manageable chunks. Give each one its own page and you can use these pages to drive people to your site.
Same thing with the videos, convert some of these into an article and post on the site.
On pricing page, its easy to overlook your free option as its not in the same format as the other paid options. Free 30 day trial should be more prominent. Also, highlight what you consider to be the preferred plan. Take a look at the BaseCamp page for an example. http://basecamphq.com/signup
For the UI, because your app is so complex, I'm only able to go over a few things based on your screenshots. You definitely want to be a/b testing and if you dont have one, bring on someone who can do some in depth testing of your UI.
With that said, the dashboard looks too busy. A dashboard should be more about communicating important info quickly and easily. I wonder if so much stuff on it is overwhleming to your users.
One idea is to make more use of the lightbox. I like this feature and perhaps you can take stuff off the dashboard and include in the lightbox.
On the item estimation page, the dice are cute as a visual display of the credits but really not intuitive. A 2 is 200 credits but then a 3 is 400 credits. Is the image or text something that can be clicked? Maybe just get rid of the image and make the text look more like a link so I know I can click it.
On the motion page, I can foresee that some users might want motions to have anonymous voting. Is this an option?
Is the discussion forum something you created internally or are you using a 3rd party product. If the answer is internal, you may want to consider going with an outside company for this part. Basic reason being that you're probably not going to create something better than whats already out there, so why waste your dev resources? Better to focus on the core parts of your application. Obviously, this could be wrong if your discussion forum is deeply tied into your other functionality, but its something to consider. You could probably post on HN to get some good companies, but I've used getsatisfaction.com and been very happy with their features.
Same goes for the wiki, doc storage, data security and backup. Decide whether these are core parts of your app and outsource if they're not. There are a number of companies building cool apps in these markets.
Using a web app I developed, I suggested removing these numbers from all public sites and advising customers to call the help desk for them. You'd be surprised how much pushing I had to do and how much resistance I faced, especially since I was working in the marketing dept.
Anyway, they finally implemented my idea. Total fraud for 2009 was approx. 300k. For 2010, its approx. 50k.
Also, when you first go to the home page, the first things that stand out are the google ads and the flickr images. Brings an association of spam or scams, which is probaby why I felt as described above.
This is basically an aggregrator, right? Tell me how I can save time coming here or how its better than all the other aggregators out there.
Your register for free option is a little confusing. I dont see a free plan on the pricing page, so it makes me wonder what I'm getting for free. Can this be changed to a trial period of 15 or 30 days?
Good job on highlighting a plan on the pricing page. Making the highlighted plan a little more prominent would be better. Right now, the only thing you've done is raised the gray box with professional. Adding more cues would be better, like a border around this one or maybe a shadow. Not too much, but a little extra to make it stand out more.
The home page is a little bare. I understand what the product does, but it would be good to move some of the questions on the help page to the home. For example, one thing I wondered was, once I login, will justunfollow unfollow everyone all at once? ON the help page, there's an answer to that question but the avergae user might not search it out.
Screenshots are always helpful. Gives me a chance to see what I'm signing up for.
Not really UI related, but saw your faq and you charge per year per account. Something like this, I can see it pissing off your power users/people who could promote your product and not really bringing in that much extra revenue.
After I signed up for your service, I see that its just basic and you have a premium package. It would be better if this was explained upfront. Perhaps a pricing page. The pricing is confusing also. On the FAQ, you say you charge per user per acct. On the upgrade page you say someone can link multiple accounts.
Home page needs to be widened. On Chrome, the top nav is being pushed to 2 lines. My Twitter username is partially covering the Like button and the upgrade link is on a second line.
Can the big justunfollow image be removed once I login? Its a better use of the page if this is reduced once people login. As it is now, the image is just pushing the stuff that people really want to see down the page.
Love the bring a video with you option. Some thoughts on additional features, can you add a compare to other sites besides Amazon? Perhaps newegg.com for electronics. just some more choices would be great.
What about send a web page thru gmail? I haven't found a really good extension for this. Something that sends the whole article rather than just a link and keeps the formatting.
First thoughts, its very white with a lot of text. Can some colors be added to differentiate sections? This could be in the form of background colors for different sections, perhaps borders. There's multiple ways to do this, but basically something that draws my eye to the most important points, such as job description and job details.
Google map on page doesnt seem to serve a real purpose and just takes up space. Is it really necessary?
Posted date seems to list a date range. This is confusing as I'm not sure how old this job posting is.
Posted by is highlighted but this seems to be rather insignificant info. There are more important things on the page to highlight. When I look for a job, I care about job description, salary, location and job type.
On the apply for job page, the subject is prefilled but it makes no mention of the specific job posting. What happens if I have multiple postings? How can I tell which emails are for which posting? This page should restate some of the info from the previous page. At a minimum it should include company name.
Rather than having a text field for resume, you should offer option to upload a resume. I would be wary of putting my resume in there as I will lose all formatting and it'll look terrible.
Resume details page
Same advice as job details page. Contact info links are confusing and really dont tell me what is supposed to happen. Can the call to action be improved with an image perhaps or more descriptive text? For the free send message, is login or registration really required? Not sure if I would send a message due to the inconvenience of having to register. If this can be dropped, great. if not, think about offering something that lets people login using a google acct or facebook, etc...
#2 should be for YOUR page layout, not for you page layout
#3 should be customize your images, not customize the your images
On about us page:
Sentence reads as: These tabs can contain anything and can be completely custom, so what is the catch.
Should be: These tabs can contain anything and can be completely custom, so what is the catch?
question mark should be at end.
Sentence reads as: Well, you have to learn FHTML and figure out how to get it onto you Facebook Fan Page. This can be tricky, so we decided to call oursleves Tab Trick.
Should be: Well, you have to learn FHTML and figure out how to get it onto your Facebook Fan Page. This can be tricky, so we decided to call ourselves Tab Trick.
Other than minor spelling mistakes, the site looks good. Very clean and easy to navigate. One thing I did notice is that it looks like there's 2 "Features" pages, one at http://tabtrick.com/take-the-tour and the other at http://tabtrick.com/features
Can these be combined? I like how the images are bigger on the features page. You're leaving a ton of white space on the take a tour page, so it should be reformatted to make the images larger so I dont need to click on every one to see what it is.
Since the whole thing is based on facebook, why do you have 3 login options? They need a facebook acct to use your product, so perhaps they can just login with their facebook login only. Also, should include directions on how to setup a facebook account. If you can automate that part, then you've basically done everything for them and made it even easier to use your product.