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usability.userium.com

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Hi!

I created a site where you can get feedback for your website and learn about usability by helping others: http://usability.userium.com/

First I learned Meteor from the "Discover Meteor" book and built the 'Microscope' app, but then decided to do this project with the 'Telescope' open source project, due to its additional features.

The idea is that first you can

(1) use the usability checklist: http://usability.userium.com/c/usability-checklist to catch common usability problems on your website.

(2) After fixing obvious problems, you can ask for feedback on the site.

To increase the amount of replies, only 3 website feedback requests are posted on the site per day. All the feedback is public, so that others can learn and apply the tips on their own websites.

This is a work-in-process, so please let me know if you find this site useful? How could I improve?

Many thanks in advance!

-Nina, nina@userium.com, http://usability.userium.com

Improve the contrast! The site is not very legible. At first I thought this was some kind of bad joke.

The site title overlaps with "Signup/Signin" when the browser window is too small.

The webfont in use looks horrible on Windows.

Edit: I recommend reading up on WCAG 2.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/), this is a helpful tool: http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/

You are right, I will improve the contrast. Thanks for the feedback!

It looks interesting, but since we are on the topic of usability - the colour contrast needs some work and the font looks blurry. The site also just loads with an 'undefined' header and then after a second or two shows the page - I'm not sure if this is because it's a JS app. I'll revisit the website in a while.

Thanks for the feedback! I can only use one dyno on Heroku with Meteor, because it needs session affinity. Maybe that's also why it is slow?

I tried submitting a URL of mine http://fmhgifts.com but it doesn't seem to work as the button is greyed out for some reason.

Many thanks for submitting, it did get saved. There seems to be a problem with the submission confirmation, I'm looking into fixing that.

Oh, the irony: http://i.imgur.com/2qyeEjT.png

Yep. :) I was trying to use similar colors as on my frontpage: http://userium.com/ but went a bit overboard. I will later fix the contrast.

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