2 comments on usability if the site owner is reading this.
1) On the payment screen you have Paypal has an option but I can't actually click on it to allow the paypal option. I'm using the newest version of Chrome.
2) I went through the whole registration with credit card details and everything and I got an error message back saying "We're closed" and to come back 9-5pm. It would be much easier for me and probably for you just to take down all my information and process it when you're open or let me pre-pay for a wash or something. It's a little frustrating that I will have to do that all over again.
This is freaking awesome. Congrats on releasing the project Gordon!
Just played till level nine and even paid for unlocking the rest of the levels. Some feedback:
1) The game needs music. It's a little quiet after awhile, would be much better with music.
2) On a lot of the levels you don't need to do anything and you'll "win" by just pressing play.
3) Totally understand why you have the ads on in the game but sometimes on the cloud levels it gets in the way of placing blocks.
4) Sometimes the game gets stuck at the end and doesn't count up all of the points
5) Counting up the points on level with a ton of items in it takes forever
6) You should also explain the different birds and which ones are coming. Noticed some had dynamite strapped to them but didn't expect that at all.
7) On replay I really wish I had the previous blocks stay where they were.
Overall an awesome game but wanted to give you some feedback on it after I played around with it for awhile.
I went to one of the classes taught by Singularity University today and my mind was completely blown about whats going on in the world of cybercrime. Happy to answer any questions or relay them to Marc Goodman who gave the talk.
I would never normally submit anything political and I have not even been active in the Occupy Movement at all. But I saw this on twitter and couldn't believe it hasn't been covered anywhere else. This is literally happening in Berkeley and one of the school professors was taken to the hospital because of it
A few years ago, at my previous employer (the one that was bought by my current employer), the consultants responsible for redesigning the company Web site walked us through the new home page, describing the rationale behind various elements. The link to a video describing the company’s products had a head-shot of the company’s VP of Marketing on it, because (the consultant explained) having a woman’s face on a home page increased the click-through rate.
Then the company missed its sales targets and had to lay off a third of its staff... including that VP of Marketing.
I'm going to sound like a broken record but I have to: if this had been A/B tested, either a) it would have been averted or b) we would have good reason to know, with statistical confidence, that despite that X came before Y, X did not in fact cause Y.
Anecdotally, faces have worked really, really well for some people. (Specific example coming at my Business of Software talk tomorrow, so I can't spoil it, but it will be livestreamed and have slides posted.)
In fairness, I think the circumstances leading up to the layoffs were not something that a better Web site could have prevented. The company was trying to expand into new markets with very different requirements than our previous customers, but it was spending more to acquire the new customers than it was actually receiving from them in revenue. Then the recession hit, and the investors decided that they would rather cash in their chips than double-down.
Author of the post here. We just made a huge change at our company (effectively killing ~40% of our readership base) and I wanted to get my thoughts out there on making a tough decision and the hard part of "focus"
