General Usability and Texts

Created atFebruary 27, 2008
Created byStephen Lee
DeadlineSeptember 18, 2008: 2 months over
Shots given 18
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Please let us know about your general usability improvements to WRECK A MOVIE. Feel free to upload markups of screenshots and show examples of how things should be done for your best experience.

We are also looking to improve our texts. If something could be clearer or is flat out wrong please Give us a shot about it.


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Thierry Gschwind November 20, 2008 08:47 0 Thumb-ups

Overview change on first page

I'm thinking that overview on the first page is not very practical. I mean you only see the last four changes/additions. Then you have to scroll to see the rest.
It would be great if could have a list or that you only see the changes since your last visit.
An altervative a list could also be a list with all changes to one project bellow the pictures. The people might only click on the stuff they see on the first page, and less popular projects, become even less popular, because they are never or only birefly showed on the first page.

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Eemeli Haverinen November 10, 2008 20:36 1 Thumb-up

Permanent URLs

Have you changed the film URLs after the update? Please, never ever change the existing URLs. Ever. It messes up links and bookmarks, which makes people angry.

Otherwise the new pages look pretty good!

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Vesa Nieminen November 12, 2008 10:55 Flag

We did change film urls one time when there was 3 productions but I think you're talking about Star Wreck 2pi's url changing. There was doubles of that production and projects leader asked it to be changed. New url looks much better, please don't be angry at us :) On a larger scale, we are committed to keep our url-structure as constant as possible.

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Timo Vuorensola November 01, 2008 12:45 Production Leader Group Leader 0 Thumb-ups

noreply@starwreckstudios.com

Is it possible to change the sender's address for the WAM mail from noreply@starwreckstudios.com to wreckamovie@starwreckstudios.com?

Timo.

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Mike Pohjola October 12, 2008 20:26 2 Thumb-ups

Films page

Browsing the productions on the Films page, clicking the producction takes me directly to the list of tasks. Clicking the film, I usually want to find out what it is rather than see the available taks. Wouldn't it make more sense for the link to send me to Film Info page? (If I tag it as something to follow, then I can see the task lists much better, anyway.)

Also, why not change the name of the page Films to Projects or Productions? There's at least tv series there now, and who knows what else will come.

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Jani Salomaa October 21, 2008 14:59 Flag

Agreed. On the films page, clicking on the production should take us to the film info page.

BUT under the 'poster' image there should be a direct link to the tasks and maybe to the latest shot. Shouldn't take too much space to implement that.

Or under the image, you could have a small bar with 'info/tasks/members/news'.

The less clicks the better.

Eemeli Haverinen October 19, 2008 11:48 Flag

Word, Mike.

Atte Joutsen October 13, 2008 07:58 Flag

Good points, Mike. Linking the films to the info page could work better.

There is going to be some changes in the film page itself. Sorting, statistics etc.

About the name, yes there is going to be many other things than films in the future. Maybe productions would be the appropriate name for the page.

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Eemeli Haverinen October 19, 2008 11:47 1 Thumb-up

Usability suggestions

Having used the site for a while, I would propose the following changes (the screenshot is here to give the idea of what I mean, not as a final visualization):

1. The production name should be a heading for the tabs. That way the name is always visible and the context of the tabs (i.e. what content they are part of) is less ambiguous. Additionally, the tabs would get more visual attention - I browsed the site for a good while before even noticing the current tabs.

2. Recently completed tasks - it is good to show that something has been completed, too. It also gives the user an idea about what s/he will find after clicking the link. The completed tasks list could have fields about the outcome or result of the task, too. It is important to see that the shots have an impact on the production.

3. The completed tasks page needs an easy way to return to the tasks page. (Back button and the Tasks link in the ant path work, but there should be something in the task list as well.)

4. The red color hilighting the sorting property is too bright - it is not that important. A standard arrow icon or a duller color should work.

5. After typing this text and clicking the Accept and Submit button, I was asked for a login and this shot was lost. That should never ever happen!

Anyway, the site looks nice. Keep up the good work!

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Sebastian Schuster August 24, 2008 16:46 0 Thumb-ups

Registration

Being a legal text your "Terms of Use" are quite long and not easy understandable for the one that has lesser training in interpreting textes that hanlde legal issues. I see not way that you can re-write the text because it has to match some written and unwritten legal standards. But you can give your customers easier access to the text by summarizing the content either
- on a second page or
- leading the "Terms of Use"
- leading single Chapters of the ToU

I think the most crucial points are "copyright/-left" and "fees".

btw: Are there any fees at the moment or is the ToU's chapter a template to be able to introduce fees at a later time?

And I've spotted a mistake in a crucial part: "-Children Under Age 13"
The ToU says:
""If you are under 13, please do not register for the WRECK A MOVIE Web Site send any information about yourself to STAR WRECK STUDIOS , including your name, address, telephone number, or email address."
Ain't there a comma missing between "Web Site" and "send any information"
I know, no big thing. But concerning legal issues you better be carefull.

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Jussi Mononen April 20, 2008 16:59 0 Thumb-ups

Testing testing this...

...Grace is my name.

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Lare Lekman April 28, 2008 23:22 Flag

Wow, very scary... Did you paint this yourself Jussi?

Lynn Kirkconnell April 20, 2008 17:34 Flag

OMG! (screams, hides under sofa)

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Timo-Heikki Mäkelä June 23, 2008 23:08 0 Thumb-ups

Falsely by default marked checkbox

When posting a new shot, the checkbox below the typing area for "Remove this task from your Todo list?" is marked by default. I doubt it should be, as more likely one posting a new shot to a task rather would follow that task. (I don't know the rule when this checkbox appears. Now, while posting this shot, there's no such checkbox. But I do see those when posting for Iron Sky.)

It may be even, that checking or unchecking that check mark doesn't in effect even affect anything. I'm not sure about it, but I haven't noticed any change whichever the way I've left it.

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Vesa Nieminen June 24, 2008 06:53 Flag

If you have a task on your todo list, the checkbox is shown on the shot form. If you leave it checked task is removed from your todo list and if you uncheck it then it doesnt do anything to the todo item.

Reasoning behind checking it by default is idea that you mark interesting tasks to your todo, and then when you want go and give a shot. Maybe this idea is skewed towards tasks with bigger shots like "draw a picture" or "compose a song" rather than "give your idea" which can more usually be done right away.

I think you saying "one posting a new shot to a task rather would follow that task" tells something about other problem we have. It is pretty hard to follow what is going on, what is new, what is interesting? We are working on this but it is pretty hard problem to tackle.

But I would like to have other opinions on the remove todo item checkbox.

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Atte Joutsen June 02, 2008 08:02 Production Leader Group Leader 0 Thumb-ups

WAM front page

Here's a couple of suggestions for the front page.

1) Could there be a scrolling feature to view the recent activity instead of arrows which give previous and next pages? The scrolling page could be for example 20 items long by default and the number could be changed in My Wreck. (See attached pic)

2) The shot texts could maybe hold also the task for which they were submitted. It would be for example "Toni Lihs gave a shot "UEF Colonization" for the task NASA Moon Mission 2018 for Iron Sky".

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Toni Salomäki May 09, 2008 09:09 0 Thumb-ups

rss feeds

I'm using rss feed to following productions and there should be also feeds in tasks and shots.. because major part of productions happends that way and now i can get updates only from news..

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Vesa Nieminen May 18, 2008 08:53 Flag

I pushed updates few days ago and now the productions feed includes new news, tasks and announcements.

Please leave feedback how it´s working for your needs.

Stephen Lee May 10, 2008 15:09 Flag

I am a bit concerned that the traffic could really get quite high in the longer term. Maybe there is a way we could create an RSS feed for the My Wreck Dashboard info......

Toni Salomäki May 09, 2008 11:01 Flag

that actually sounds good.. too much annoucments in same feed don't sound so good...

Vesa Nieminen May 09, 2008 10:01 Flag

I´ve been testing with feeds that would include latest news, announcements and tasks, but now when you said it, shots could also be pretty nice thing to follow through feeds.

Maybe it should be separated so that per production there would be a feed only for shots and a feed for the rest(news, tasks, announcements), because that shot feed can be pretty high traffic at times. What do you think?

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