Feedback from a first-time user
Submitted by kosmofilo on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 00:48I posted a link to FeedsAnywhere on another site and I got this reply (the user assumed I was its developer). I don't agree with everything he said but I thought that you might like reading his feedback (since people are not coming to the forum yet).
Since most people won't create an account for it before trying it, I think you should place your "Feature Tour" and "test drive" links somewhere more visible on the page.
Also, you may want to change the glossy "settings" and ">" icons from the feed view. I don't think they really fit with the rest of the design. Make it even more minimal.
You should align your logo to the left, and the menu to the right.
The lack of username/password textboxes on the home page is also annoying.
Navigation
| j/k | selects the next/previous item in the list |
| n/p | in title view, selects the next item without opening it |
| space/shift+space | moves to the next/previous page |
| shift+m | open/close the main menu |
| shift+o | open/close the options menu |
| enter | select the highlight entry from a menu |
Actions
| enter,o | in title view, expands or collapses the selected item |
| shift+a | marks all items in the current page as read |
| d | go to the item's list of similar stories |
| i/u | designate the item as interesting/not interesting |
| m | marks the item as read or unread |
| s | adds or removes a star from the selected item |
| shift+s | open/close the item's share menu |
| shift+u | marks all items in the current page as unread |
| v | opens the original source for the item in a new tab |
Go To a New Page
| g then h | go to the homepage |
| g then i | go to the Interesting items view |
| g then a | go to the All items view |
| g then s | go to the Saved items view |
| g then p | go to the Popular items view |
| g then f | go to the Select a Feed page |
Application
| - | decrease the font size |
| = | increase the font size |
| esc | close any menu if open, otherwise deselect all items |
| ? | open/close a decription of keyboard shortcuts |
We made a few changes based
We made a few changes based on the feedback and added a login box to the front page. The feature tour and test drive links are more visible now too.
Chad
http://feedsanywhere.com
Thanks for passing along the
Thanks for passing along the feedback. The design aspect reinforces that people really care about looks even though people don't usually agree on what looks good.
FYI. We put the logo and menu in the center because this design scaled better across screen sizes.
At one point we had a login box directly on the home page, but removed it for some reason. Maybe we should revisit that decision.