Hey everyone,
Here is the most recent build of the photo contest application I am building. Today I completed a stable version of the voting UI and prize winner selection. It would be quite helpful if you could take a few moments to visit the prototype, vote in the live elections, and take a screenshot of how it appears on your screen and include a message telling me what device and browser you are on.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Looks pretty slick! I love the highlighted āliveā link, and the purple color scheme.
Some minor suggestions would be:
Perhaps you could make the pictures themselves clickable (put them inside a link). I instictively clicked on the photos before realizing that I had to click on the ārank #1ā label.
Is the plus button in the top right supposed to perform an operation? I clicked but nothing happened from what I could see.
It may be just my lack of understanding about how it all works, but does an āelectionā correspond to the different picture categories (Art, Mountains, etcā¦)? Iām just wondering as that wasnāt clear to me as a first time naive user.
I assume that for each picture category Iām supposed to pick my top 3 and submit. If that is correct, have you considered a global submit button that would submit for each category all at once? This would make it faster than the choose -> submit -> choose-> submit, ā¦ cycle. I may be misunderstanding something here.
Once Iāve submitted, is there a way to make it obvious which categories I have already considered/submitted. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what to do, but if not, it would be nice to see a ā5/10 rankings completeā or something of that nature.
The vote drop down has a single item in it. Is this intended? Maybe there is a way to not show it if there is only one option.
This is really cool stuff and most of these suggestions are minor and likely due to me being a naive user.
I was a little disconcerted by the request for a login before even getting into the app. Normally thatād cause me to simply close the page. Iād expect the need for a login to be after Iād gotten into the app, found out what it was about, and decided I wanted to take an action that required login.
After voting, thereās a yellow bar with text that isnāt visible on my desktop with Chrome. Iām assuming it says Submit, but I canāt tell for sure. I pressed it anyway, and got a new set of photos.
excellent feedback.
youre right the white on yellow was horrible. We still need to finalize all the colors.
it will be ātap to zoomā which will show the image full screen. Deciding if the move is to do that with an alert or a custom html overlay over the screen.
the plus button is a place holder.
yes an election is the category of 6 photos.
genius idea to make a global submit button. Noted.
I was going to make a page that shows the elections the user has already participated in.
hmm, on my screen the drop down has VOTE, ADMIN, ME. Admin contents are only visible to me and will be removed from dropdown soon. ME has a logout button.
thank you for your thoughtful feedback. I need to make it suitable for even the most naive user. Already taking action on these suggestions.
Great feedback, maybe instead of requiring login to view elections I will only require it to submit elections. Submit button has been changed to a more visible palette and will likely change again to be even better.
thank you!
quick update: Instead of a scrolling feed of elections on a repeating panel, it is now displaying one at a time and brings in a new one when you hit submit. It makes it feel much snappier.
