A Usability Review of Digg.com
Posted on June 6th, 2006 in Usability | 6 Comments »
“John S. Rhodes navigates through Digg.com using screen capture video. He discovers and discusses several usability issues that could be hindering Digg’s profitability.”
- 18 minutes Hands on and real world.
- 23MB Smooth video with a human touch.
- Instant download Entertaining and practical.
- Only $5 About the price of a good mug of cold beer.
6 Responses
I’m interested… should be worth the $5. I’ll check it out when I get home tonight.
Interesting distribution/pricing as well. Good luck.
Think of the added earning potential if you could distribute the mug of cold beer with the download.
Good luck.
He who figures out a way to deliver beer over a CAT-5 cable and WiFi will be worth his weight in gold.
John, I’m downloading the video now.
I was very disappointed that the link to “Purchase Usability Review of Digg.com” is neither underlined or otherwise styled as a hyperlink. You should bug the “uxreports” guys, whoever they are.
I’ve just finished the video. Really good stuff. I’m definitely left wanting more.
Something that I thought while watching this is that the video is exactly the kind of content that would be a huge hit on Digg… if you didn’t have to pay to see it. Have you considered releasing a 2-4 minute clip for free? Another thing that would work is if someone wrote a very complete synopsis and linked to the video. So anyone looking for a bunch of random traffic, do a writeup on John’s video and post it to Digg.
John, I’m looking forward to watching the video withing the next few days. Any other review videos in the pipeline?
BTW, I added the video to my post on usability videos on http://justaddwater.dk/2005/12/15/where-to-find-usability-test-videos/