“There is Absolutely Nothing Good About the Page.”

As I mentioned, I asked Ed Kohler’s Mechanical Turk project – 3rdPartyFeedback.com (feedback from 10 people for $25) – about Cullect.

Here’s what they said.

    What Does This Website Do?

  1. This helps people find and share the relevant, important stories from our news and
    blog feeds.
  2. This website helps you find and share relevant and important stories from news and
    blog feeds. Cullector is a supporter, share-er, writer, and aggregator.
  3. Find and share important stories from news and blogs feeds.
  4. It appears that the website functions as a news aggregator for news websites and
    blog sites.
  5. Looks like a site to share your favorite sites, blogs and feeds. I image it’s like:
    “Digg, De.lic.ious, or Cullect this link”.
  6. It helps you find news and blogs on specific subject matter that is currently in the
    news or being written about. It seems to be (due to the amount of times the state
    is highlighted) primarily regarding Minnesota related news.
  7. The website helps you find and share the relevant, important stories from your news
    and blog feeds.
  8. This appears to be an application called, “Cullect” which allows users to share
    relevant news and stories from blog feeds.
  9. The website helps you sort through blogs and feeds that you subscribe to, to find
    those articles you would want to read.
  10. Actually, not a clue. After going deeper into the site it seems to be a collection of
    personal stories that individuals submit.
    Best Current Feature

  1. I don’t consider anything best current feature for this website.
  2. The best feature on this site is the simplicity of finding what you are looking for.
    They are broken down by categories and even have a currently added location.
  3. The Most Recommended is a good place to start. I would Suggest the reading of
    Garrick Van Buren’s Econ Blogs.
  4. The tag cloud with blue keywords for easy clicking.
  5. I like the fact that the website design is spare and not flash heavy.
  6. The tag cloud of terms. I can scan that big list and read other people’s links to
    topics of interest to me.
  7. That the most popular items are clearly highlighted in blue and therefore easy to
    spot and click on.
  8. As of now, there is absolutely nothing good about the page. It needs to be greatly
    improved.
  9. The ability to curate feeds with other people is a very exciting feature that is
    practical and fun.The ability to customize reading lists into levels of importance is
    interesting.
  10. Site filters through clutter for you so you can get the info you want faster.
    1-Thing to Improve

  1. This website would be better with a new design. The homepage is a little sloppy and
    when I first clicked the link it doesn’t seem professional very much. Otherwise, it is
    a great concept.
  2. Need more coloring and images. Need a navigation for collecting the same topics.
  3. The site is actually too simple and too similar to a paper page. Making use of the
    empty white space on the left of the screen for links would aid navigation. Also, you
    need to break up the text somewhat following “Named Reading Lists.” The
    hyperlinks stand out well, but they are embedded in a wall of text that is three
    pages long.
  4. Add some design. The all css texty stuff is very bland looking. Also I was confused
    by a few headlines:

    “You probably already have an account.” Huh? Why might I probably have an
    account if this is the first time I’ve been here?

    “Find a Cullect Reading List” I expected this to be a link that would take me to a list
    of users with lists or even a list of lists. It doesn’t link or do anything.
  5. It is plain and boring. It is a complete cluster of words and therefore hard to read.
    Your mind just wants to skim over everything. Also the font at the beginning of the
    page is huge and not needed. I am not saying that it needs to be splashy and have
    moving graphics, but right now it looks like it was put together in 5 minutes with no
    care.
  6. Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
  7. I am not sure about the ‘membership’ and not confident that passing along 30-35%
    of a person’s membership to a blogger, podcaster of your choice. This is
    interesting, but the way it is stated on the web page could be improved. The
    presentation of this option needs further development. This seems to be a very
    unique aspect of Cullect.com and the design of the site should better present this
    concept.
  8. Front page could look more professional. Perhaps a different font and one color per
    subject photos may help.
  9. Change the layout a bit so the description of Cullect is in a different font and size
    from the “sign in” button”. Trying to grab new users attention. Make your
    description pop.
  10. Take out all the non-highlighted items. If you can’t access them at this point why
    have them listed. Makes the site seem to go on and on.

Your comments?

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3 Responses to ““There is Absolutely Nothing Good About the Page.””

  1. Erica on January 1st, 2009

    Seems to me like everyone got hung up on looks and no one actually tried to use it.

  2. Tim on January 10th, 2009

    So did you find this feedback helpful and worth your $25? What have you changed based upon this feedback?

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