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Great "About Us" page design..Bobbleheads

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18 pointsneovive15 comments

Times out in a normal browser at the moment.

If you use a text browser like elinks it looks like any other normal page. Although in text mode it would have looked better if everything was lined up left with minimal spacing between lines.

Ah, it just loaded, but only one of the heads showed up. Cute.

Funny and different. Click on the heads to make them bobble even harder.

sweet!

Cool approach, but if I were a prospective employee or client I'd be weary of a large executive committee that is willing to spend that kind of money on what amounts to a vanity gag.

How much did it cost?

Just doing a quick Google search, it seems it costs around $150 to get a fully customized bobble head in physical form. It would probably cost more to have it faked (even if it's an in-house designer) than to get real ones created and take high quality pictures of those.

Keep in mind that this is company behind the elaborate "Angry Nerds" April Fool's game (http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds). It does provide some excellent PR and a testing ground for new technologies.

surely as a prospective employee it'd be good to know they've got cash spare for this kind of thing?

Only if you're looking to work for a 400+ employee organization where people think that this sort of thing is of such importance.

If my CEO stopped by my desk with a bobblehead of himself, I'd have to step out fo character and go Biblical for a moment.

Injecting a little humor and character into your corporation via some creative pages on your website will make me _more_ likely to do business with you. It humanizes the company.

Sorry to be a downer, but it all depends depends on how you look at it. To me it looks like this group of executives has decided to celebrate itself under the guise of humor. I'm more of an egalitarian than that.

Would you react the same way if they had boring but equally expensive professional photos instead of bobbleheads?

I'd be more wary of their own website not scaling. (I was able to see the page a few minutes ago but now their website is down.)

I doubt this is significantly more expensive than sending the execs all out for professional portraits. And better yet, it got them free advertising on HN, and who knows how many other sites. I'd say this scheme has already paid for itself.

I work at Atlassian. The dolls were $100 each, and lots of us are just going to wrap 'em up as x-mas presents for our kids. We did the rest ourselves. As someone else commented, professional photos would have cost as much, with a lot more yawns.

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