Posts filed under “Product”
Judy's Book Deal Alerts
With last night’s release, as Dave mentioned, there were a bunch of changes to Judy’s Book and I’ll be writing more about those next week as we shake out some of the outstanding issues. One feature that I’d like to mention in the near term is Deal Alerts. In the left nav on every page, [...]
Measure Aggregate Behavior, but also remember to observe individuals
Measuring consumer behavior and watching consumers interact with your site are the best ways to find out what works and what doesn’t. There’s a great post on Signal vs. Noise about some of the things behind Amazon’s success. Two paragraphs that jumped out at me: Use measurement and objective debate to separate the good from [...]
Post-Release
The last week has been a hectic one at Judy’s Book. We released an update to our deals site on Monday and most of the week has been spent in addressing the numerous issues that come up post release. Dave and the engineering team did a fantastic job identifying and then whittling down our bug [...]
Release Day Rocks
I love the stress associated with the day of a big release. You’re running around trying to sort out last minute issues, getting bugs ironed out, making sure your data is in the right place and your marketing team is anxiously waiting for the site to be live so they can start their work. It’s [...]
Don't forget about your Ops Team
You’re not done until it’s tested, deployed and running. When working hard to build a site you think users will rave about, it’s critical to not lose sight of the operations support required to test, deploy and keep your site running. The best site in the world is a complete waste of time if pages [...]
New Features on Judy's Book
Over the past few weeks, we released and iterated upon a number of features on Judy’s Book aimed at user convenience and making it easier to get and track deals you care about. Deal Bookmarking and Tagging This features allows a user to save deals with notes and tags and then review them at their [...]
User Engagement – Measuring the right things
When you’re evaluating whether or not your site is meeting its user engagement goals, it’s important to look at the right metrics. What’s right for a social network is not right for a search engine. By the way, if you’re not measuring things like visits, page views/visit, time on site, etc you should start immediately. [...]
Impact of Font on Perception of Email (via Usability News)
Switch to ‘Comic Sans.’ Ok, that’s not true. The power font of choice is Calibri . Usability News has a fascinating article about the impact of the font of an email on the reader’s perception of the writer of the message. The article is dated January 9, 2007 and the results are really interesting and [...]
Couponlooker Improvements
We released some significant new functionality on couponlooker today. (We also put out some new features on Judy’s Book which I’m really excited about but more on that tomorrow.) Kurt and Dave (Ops and Test) deserve a special thank you for great work in helping us iron out the kinks in this release and making [...]
Maybe this isn't really helpful
While reading the WSJ online, I selected some text and clicked my right mouse button. Instead of seeing my context menu pop up, I got the following monstrosity from the site. It overlays a window onto the page, completely obscuring what you’ve selected, in an attempt to provide ‘helpful’ context. I already have a context [...]