Friendfeed

FriendFeed disappoints – start to finish. From the empty-feeling opening page to the lack of interactivity, this site is a big downer.

The first thing I noticed was all that space. The opening page looks unfinished and rather ‘cut and paste.’ The only clickable icon was to ‘create and account.’ I wanted to find out what I was creating an account for first, so I looked around. On the right-hand side are icons with some minimal info, I clicked on them, but nothing happened. Very frustrating. After all, everyone knows all icons are clickable now.

I had to click on some smallish text toward the bottom right-hand side to find out what was going on.

The bottom navigation is simple and efficient, but nothing special. The internal pages tabbed navigation on top was nice, but not entirely consistent throughout the site.

Overall, I think the site needs a lot of work. If they want to make the product appealing, they need to make a much more attractive, interesting, compelling site. I was instantly put off by the lack of the familiar and functional interface and I had little interest in pursuing the site further. If it wasn’t for this assignment, I would have left immediately because there was nothing visually appealing at all and what little content was there was too bland to get excited about.

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