#131 - Improving Our Look and Feel

#131

                October 24, 2022

            #131 - Improving Our Look and Feel

                On our upcoming usability testing, an update on our giveaways platform, and a teaser into the stats developments! 📊

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#131 | 24 October 2022

Improving Our Look and Feel

We'd love to handle most of our common user interface and experience pain points before the year is up. 👀

When I started to think about how we'd go about resolving them, I realised I was fighting the current design and that perhaps it was time to rethink how everything was laid out.

There's a lot people want to be able to do from the book pane, but not much space!

The worst would be to do a lil' redesign and:

a) The people who are currently happily using the app now start struggling, and/or...

b) The people who are currently struggling/don't enjoy using the app are in the same, or even worse(!), position!

Enter: Usability Testing!

This past week we've been gathering interview candidates and we've already got almost 500 people signed up!

I've never done this type of user interview before but I'm excited to learn how and get started! 😁

Since last time...

Rob and I have sketched out what's going to be included in the next iteration of our stats section, including the features necessary to transition our Plus plan to be an Advanced Stats package.

How would you feel if I told you that we were delivering on the fact that several people want to see the equivalent of this chart, but for their custom tags?

The first round of our giveaways came to an end and the prize draw ran smoothly. It was so awesome to see how excited the winners were!

The second set of listings is now live!

Next two weeks

Hopefully I'm in the midst of my usability interviews! I'm very curious to see whether the proposed redesigns are easy to use or not.

We'll also be filling up spots for the third round of our Beta Giveaways Programme. Based on our customer feedback, we've decided to reinstate our initial 50% discount while we work on implementing the features that'll bring the platform closer to its official launch!

What I'm reading

Reading a couple of big ones right now so might be a little while before I finish a book. Then again, I do have some long train journeys coming up. 😌

Have a great week,

Nadia

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