Don’t get me wrong I love that you all did this but first impression of the prototype is that I was very dissatisfied and hope that that’s not what the goal is.
When I made it to the prototype I almost immediately clicked out of it because it landed me on a signup page that when I clicked to the homepage it just highlighted the sign up button.
I won’t argue with analytics but I would reckon (definitely for me) there are way more visitors to dev.to than there are users. I didn’t sign up for quite a while and my UX was not to immediately sign up like they said in their sample track. I didn’t actually make an account until I wanted to make a post myself and that wasn’t until I decided I wanted to blog here instead of on my own site. I would favorite the posts on twitter and then move on. So to click on the new site and find I wasn’t able to browse any articles was saddening.
Anyways I didn’t mean for this to sound so negative and love that you all are trying to improve the site and believe in you
Thanks for your reply and great call out. The purpose of the prototype is actually to only highlight new processes and small, key feature redesigns that our persona, Dennis Kang goes through. There are task guidelines and without knowing the tasks and subsequent user flows, the prototype won't make any sense! I'll add those to the article to clarify!
May I ask for clarification on what page the prototype link led you to? The link should lead to an immediate sign up/onboarding process.
Articles/browsing definitely weren't removed in the prototype, but can't be accessed from every page as the prototype linked above isn't a full, working prototype (another thing that I will clarify above!) but instead a tool to individually highlight an onboarding flow, a user profile flow, an article search flow and a comment browsing flow! Please let us know if you see anything else that could make this post a bit more clear!
Sorry about that! I originally thought the proto was a more full example and was thrown off guard when I discovered I could only sign up through the link in the post.
While I personally think that the flow that Dennis went through is a non-typical experience for first finding dev.to I want to thank you again for doing this as anything to see dev.to getting better is cool in my book 😃
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Don’t get me wrong I love that you all did this but first impression of the prototype is that I was very dissatisfied and hope that that’s not what the goal is.
When I made it to the prototype I almost immediately clicked out of it because it landed me on a signup page that when I clicked to the homepage it just highlighted the sign up button.
I won’t argue with analytics but I would reckon (definitely for me) there are way more visitors to dev.to than there are users. I didn’t sign up for quite a while and my UX was not to immediately sign up like they said in their sample track. I didn’t actually make an account until I wanted to make a post myself and that wasn’t until I decided I wanted to blog here instead of on my own site. I would favorite the posts on twitter and then move on. So to click on the new site and find I wasn’t able to browse any articles was saddening.
Anyways I didn’t mean for this to sound so negative and love that you all are trying to improve the site and believe in you
Hi Sean,
Thanks for your reply and great call out. The purpose of the prototype is actually to only highlight new processes and small, key feature redesigns that our persona, Dennis Kang goes through. There are task guidelines and without knowing the tasks and subsequent user flows, the prototype won't make any sense! I'll add those to the article to clarify!
May I ask for clarification on what page the prototype link led you to? The link should lead to an immediate sign up/onboarding process.
Articles/browsing definitely weren't removed in the prototype, but can't be accessed from every page as the prototype linked above isn't a full, working prototype (another thing that I will clarify above!) but instead a tool to individually highlight an onboarding flow, a user profile flow, an article search flow and a comment browsing flow! Please let us know if you see anything else that could make this post a bit more clear!
Hi,
Sorry about that! I originally thought the proto was a more full example and was thrown off guard when I discovered I could only sign up through the link in the post.
While I personally think that the flow that Dennis went through is a non-typical experience for first finding dev.to I want to thank you again for doing this as anything to see dev.to getting better is cool in my book 😃