jmulder

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Product Designer in the Amsterdam area. Currently at Marktplaats (an eBay company). Previously at funda. Also, I love cricket. http://www.jeroenmulder.com
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Comment · 9 years ago
Haha, I am very well. Yourself? Hit me up on Twitter @jmulder to catch up!
Comment · 9 years ago
Hear hear. Without deviantArt and the incredible support of the community I would have never gotten into product design.

Also, hi

Comment · 13 years ago
But that's not the point. The point is to have easy to understand cues for the receiver on how important the message is, with the sole goal not to disturb them for messages that do not require immediate attention.

A phone call can always be followed by a confirmation e-mail explaining it again for archiving purposes, but it is incredibly selfish of a sender to assume that the receiver will immediately read and act on the e-mail he receives. Most of us just get too many e-mails to assume every e-mail is important -- it's usually the complete opposite anyway.

Comment · 13 years ago
I assume because the concept of those messages and the 'undo' action they contain match. The message is a confirmation of sending and the action is to undo sending. Having read the message once and learn about it allows you to dismiss it in future interactions.

Moving this message of 'did you forget an attachment?' to that same message would result in a mixed and unpredictable result -- unpredictable because you didn't know you forgot about the attachment. You expect a confirmation message, dismiss it (meaning you don't even look at it), but instead the attachment message might have been shown there. You wouldn't have known.

Comment · 13 years ago
I'd like to see them test this in The Netherlands, where, especially here in Amsterdam, it's quite normal for bike thiefs (or junkies) to steal a bike in seconds and sell them for 15 euro just minutes later.

Success of this device depends on the reaction speed of the owner or other Cricket users being quicker than the thief can steal it. Good challenge, but my money is on the thief ;-)

Comment · 13 years ago
I'd be interested, sure! :-)
Comment · 13 years ago
I started noticing this at home the other day and I quite like it. It allows me to short-cut key directly back to the search box. It will take some getting used to, sure.
Comment · 13 years ago
Very useful! Thank you ver much! Although I'd like to add one suggestion and that is to surpress an 'echo' on successful navigation. I'd see my path twice right underneath of eachother, which just clutters up the screen.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
I've been using Feedly with Reeder for iPhone. In terms of design I think Feedly is one of the better options, but they should really spend more time on making their UI a whole lot more responsive. I've always felt one of Google Reader's great tricks was its asynchronous UI which really gave it that speedy feeling.
Comment · 13 years ago
In normal Scrum terms this is what they call a retrospective, right? A sprint review is one where you present the resulting potentially shippable product to stakeholders.
Comment · 13 years ago
People claiming the author should have just 'unsubscribed' are missing the point of trust. The author didn't just want these e-mails, he actually lost trust that Weebly was capable of sending informative e-mails at all.

This is a huge loss for Weebly, as they'll never reach the author again by e-mail, even if they were giving away a million dollar.

All in all, in Weebly's case, the e-mails are just spam. They do not have any function other than screaming for attention. Might work for 'growth hacking', but doubt it will do them any good in the long run.

Comment · 13 years ago
List view. Keeps my horizontal eye movement to a minimum.
Comment · 13 years ago
She really doesn't trust Yahoo's own management, does she?

Wouldn't be surprised if she was right and Yahoo's current management is indeed mediocre at best, in which case all these 'weird' things she's doing might not be weird after all.

Comment · 13 years ago
I'll start with the criticism, because that's what you want, but all in all I think you have a good start here. :-)

My main point of feedback would be: why would I want to meet the 'right' people in my neighbourhood? What is 'right' anyway?

It is a question you answer further down the page, but I just barely got to that point. The design mostly focuses on how you try to solve a problem when to me as a visitor I don't even know the problem I'm having.

Furthermore, I am not entirely sure what you want me to do here. I think you want me to sign-up for an invite, but the call to action to do that is down below and not clearly visible.

The "Say YO!" button near the bottom of the page looks like an illustration due to the previous content blocks and I wouldn't have expected it to be the desired call to action. Perhaps even rephrase it to just say "Request an invite" and drop the "Have ideas?" part as that just gives someone another reason not to spend 30 seconds and not to complete the process.

Add a call to action to the lightbox showing the video. Else you're asking me to close the lightbox first and then look for whatever you're trying me to do.

I would reorganize the left hand side navigation as I think it greatly takes the attention away from the main pitch.

Remove the poll. Surely number of sign-ups is a good indication of people thinking your service is going to be useful?

Remove the cat and the text below it. Nobody is going to read that.

Hope that helps a bit. Good luck!

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