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15 pointsadrianwaj9 comments

Your homepage is quite confusing indeed:

- The "Connect with artists" banner looks like an input field. The first thing I did was try to type in it, which didn't work.

- What's the point of the list of stats? When I mouse over them they react, so it implies I might be able to interact with them, but I can't... so why put them there?

- The list of fans, touring artists and news is confusing. If I click on fans, it shows me some numbers, which turns out to be screenshots if I click on them. Why not bring those screenshots out and show them when I load the site to help me understand what this is? If I click on touring artists it shows me what appears to be a list of buttons, but which upon further inspection appears to be a list of items which I can mouseover to see more information about (the arrows at the bottom further my confusion - they seem to suggest I can reorder the list, but really it just toggles between items). If I click on "news", I get what appears to be 3 tweets, 2 of which are you talking about how excited you are about launching.

I haven't tried signing up or using it because the homepage prevents me from understanding what this is or why I would use it. The layout breaks many UI conventions that could be fixed by involving an interaction designer or doing some usability tests and observing how people react to the homepage.

Hope that helps!

Thank you. I'll definitely be getting this all fixed soon.

Not sure whether this is supposed to be more than http://www.songkick.com/. But you should check that one out for a great user experience.

Thanks for the tip. Songkick has always repulsed me in a number of ways including lack of innovation, vision and site design. I should really have a poke around now that it looks like they've had a redesign.

blog post about launch: http://blog.bopgig.com/2012/01/bopgig-launches.html

Misread it as Bogpig. Anyone else?

haha, I see that sort of. It was originally Gigpop, but thought Bopgig to be cooler.

I think I prefer Gigpop. If the letters are transposed there, Gipgop is a bit funny - better than Bogpig!

I try to keep kosher when it comes to pigs. Gigpop started to annoy me after a while. To me Bop is better than Pop: Bop is like Bebop, it has lasting value unlike Pop which changes with the times.

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