Comments on: MyBlogLog User Interface Gets A Facelift - Is It A Good Thing? http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/ BizExcellerated Internet Marketing: Achieve mastery in blogging, affiliate marketing, social traffic generation at Andrew Wee Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: A Week In The Life of A Redhead http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-482560 A Week In The Life of A Redhead Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:42:03 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-482560 The redesign gets a thumbs down from me, and ever since the change I have stopped getting new members. It is too much hassle, too much click through, so I have moved on to work my networking elsewhere. I'll probably leave their widget on my site, since many of the bloggers from MBL are wonderful, and I wouldn't want to stop seeing their great faces on the sidebar of my blog. Thanks for the article on a topic which is bugging me. Sincerely, Catherine, the redhead blogger The redesign gets a thumbs down from me, and ever since the change I have stopped getting new members. It is too much hassle, too much click through, so I have moved on to work my networking elsewhere. I’ll probably leave their widget on my site, since many of the bloggers from MBL are wonderful, and I wouldn’t want to stop seeing their great faces on the sidebar of my blog.
Thanks for the article on a topic which is bugging me.
Sincerely,
Catherine, the redhead blogger

]]> By: Andrew Wee http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481377 Andrew Wee Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:50:33 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481377 Hi Ian, good to hear from you and it's reassuring to know that MBL is proactively monitoring the net for feedback. I think it's great to solicit user feedback and I've been following Yahoo! since '97, and MBL since it's early days, so I know that there's a lot of potential in the beast, even with the sometimes tortuous process of having to login to Yahoo! to access my MBL account. Maybe a couple of usability tests with subjects in various demographics - eg. savvy bloggers, older folks, will give an idea of what the best configuration would be? Hi Ian,
good to hear from you and it’s reassuring to know that MBL is proactively monitoring the net for feedback.

I think it’s great to solicit user feedback and I’ve been following Yahoo! since ‘97, and MBL since it’s early days, so I know that there’s a lot of potential in the beast, even with the sometimes tortuous process of having to login to Yahoo! to access my MBL account.

Maybe a couple of usability tests with subjects in various demographics - eg. savvy bloggers, older folks, will give an idea of what the best configuration would be?

]]> By: Ian Kennedy http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481360 Ian Kennedy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:29:04 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481360 Hi Andrew, Thanks for your thoughtful review and pointers on how we might do this better next time. Shame on us for not bringing in some feedback from the advisory group which Robyn worked so hard in getting set up! The design was informed by some early research we had done (Yahoo has these great user research labs, one way mirrors and everything!) when we were still thinking through the concept several months ago. In a perfect world we would have gone back out and re-tested our mockups as we got closer. It is still very early days for this feature and we'll continue to monitor feedback as it comes in to perfect it. I could have done a better job on the evangelizing but it's so hard to get a hold of those famous people! If you know anyone that wants to get sneak peaks of stuff to help get the word out post-launch, send 'em my way! Keep the feedback coming. Ian Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your thoughtful review and pointers on how we might do this better next time. Shame on us for not bringing in some feedback from the advisory group which Robyn worked so hard in getting set up!

The design was informed by some early research we had done (Yahoo has these great user research labs, one way mirrors and everything!) when we were still thinking through the concept several months ago. In a perfect world we would have gone back out and re-tested our mockups as we got closer. It is still very early days for this feature and we’ll continue to monitor feedback as it comes in to perfect it.

I could have done a better job on the evangelizing but it’s so hard to get a hold of those famous people! If you know anyone that wants to get sneak peaks of stuff to help get the word out post-launch, send ‘em my way!

Keep the feedback coming.

Ian

]]> By: DamnSmiley http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481279 DamnSmiley Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-networking/mybloglog-user-interface-gets-a-facelift-is-it-a-good-thing/#comment-481279 Yea sure i like the new design face but im not sure if the messaging thing is still available cos it has been ages i used mybloglog i will make out time tonight to look around more. Good stuff! Yea sure i like the new design face but im not sure if the messaging thing is still available cos it has been ages i used mybloglog i will make out time tonight to look around more. Good stuff!

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