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by Legend 4587 days ago
Looks very nice! Neatly executed. Here are a couple of quick observations/suggestions. I am not a UX designer so most of these are from my personal perspective.

- When I click on PS3/XBox 360/Wii, the page scrolls down and that's fine. However, it would be great to put a "Top" button somewhere to take the user back or ideally, make the "item" band containing Tablets, PS3, XBox 360... stick to the top.

- That brings me to my second point: This type of design is not scalable unless you are planning on supporting only Tablets, PS3s... See what I am saying?

- When I first visit your site, I would love to see you auto-detect my location instead of waiting for me to select one. See here for an example: http://html5demos.com/geo

- Too much space is wasted for each item cell. You can easily have two categories next to each other if the space permits. Think of making it resposive, for instance.

- What is the intuition behind the purchase/selling mechanism? Are you designing around some auction schemes? When I want to sell something, it does not ask me for a price. When I want to buy something, it is asking me for a price. So this seems closer to an auction mechanism than any other regular kind of a purchase. Why not explore mechanisms where you can let the seller specify a minimum amount he is willing to accept? This way you can eliminate spammy customers who are trying to purchase an iPad for $1 :)

That's all for now. Keep up the great work!

1 comments

Wow, that's a big comment with great insights. I know it's not perfect, but as the phrase says "if you're not embarrassed by the 1st version, you've launched too late". I want to add some of the UI improvements you mention.

I didn't let the seller specify a minimum amount he's willing to accept because a)the listing could stay 1 year and the price will be dropping b) she just need to scan the 1st offers, ordered by offered amount.

Yes, it will be some spammy customer trying to buy iPads for $1, but every offer cost a credit, I hope that will discourage most of them.

Again, thanks for all your comments.