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by snewe • 16 years ago

24 2 16 years ago

I am embarrassed to see that the UI launched in this condition. (I am allowed to be embarrassed rather than just outraged since I work there.)

* Top middle text below the blue line should be removed.

* Some links on the left side lead to ugly, empty search result pages (archiving & discovery implementation, etc.). How about don't show the categories to users until you have something in them?

* "0 review"? You were smart enough to specialize the "1 review" versus "2+ review_s_" case but couldn't work out that 0 is plural?

* There should be a two-line limit on the titles of apps shown in the right-side bar. And they should have icons. The number of reviews should be shown without "reviews," and the stars and number should be a link to the actual reviews.

* When I have no search results, it pops up a result page that seems to assume that I have entered keywords. It says "Your search - - did not return any listings." Then it makes suggestions that I modify my keywords. This should obviously not be the cases since I did not use any keywords in the first place.

* The category titles on the left side should be reworked. The mapping follows:

  On all, s/[Ii]mplementation//g
          s/[Aa]plication//g
  
  Support and managed services is really two different
  categories, they should be split and "services" 
  eliminated.

The overall odor of management bs is all around this site too. I guess people who eat that are who they are trying to attract, but it doesn't make standing near the outhouse stink any less.

I don't understand how mistakes as basic as these could possibly be made. It's not like there's a complicated database or optimization problem behind this website. It probably won't even see one qps on a normal day. They should have spent more time making it less ugly.

PS: and, uh, there are people using our trademark without permission to advertise their services. E.g. goog setup, here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/search?category...

Hyter• 16 years ago

Don't be embarrassed.

This is 'launch early and iterate' at its finest.

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