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Hello world!
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How Progressive Disclosure helps Your Price
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What’s the term for a UI design pattern where you progressively educate the user about advanced features the more they use a web service?
Progressive disclosure (More …)
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Looking for scouts
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Your Price is looking for scouts!
Money aside, the earning opportunities on Your Price add value to their creator, as they can make campaigns for their polls, and to get people to listen to their band. It would be nice if the YPC could add value too, for our members. Lots of members post here about their day and their thoughts, so it would be nice to have something that’s beneficial to the masses for a change.
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Looking for councillors
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Your Price is looking for councillors!
Councillors are a part of the YPC. First things first, council members don’t get paid! That would cause Your Price to be skewed. If you want to be a councillor, you only do it for the love. I don’t want people applying to be councillors just for the benefits, and you don’t want me paying you less money once Your Price gets more members. This is the commitment to our users that we strike. We’re not here to exploit anyone. (More …)
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Helping Romania
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Never did I ever think I would see the possibility of having my future end on the very same day I get accepted for university. Never could I think that a degree meant nothing, and that my seventeen years of education would be considered worthless. Back then I hadn’t even applied to university yet, and I was happily getting my education. And I don’t live in Romania. (More …)
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Why the world will never be fair
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Someone on Quora asked if the world is fair. What a stupid question! Here’s the answer I came up with.
Why would you ask this question, considering that the world could be somehow be fair?
If you watch the news and hear about someone being murdered, that does not make the world unfair. A minority of people murdering cannot make a world unfair. What makes the world unfair, is that it runs on a system that can never be perfect, of which not everyone can be rich, or have a good job. (More …)
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v1 Survey Results
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The survey results are dated 2010. 2011 marks the start of v2. Seems like the people who use GPT sites are ambitious. It’s to be expected, now I think about it, but I never really thought of it that way before. It’s the people who will resort to using a PTC site for money because there’s nothing else, who are the ambitious people.
PS. I removed the ads from the login page.
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Reducing friction with ifumes
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Running Your Price as well as being an experiment, is also a learning process for me. The things I learn along the way, I put into the stories blog category, to take you on a journey of exploration like me. Running Your Price, I learnt a lot of things about people, society, and usability. Back when I was running Your Price for 4 months last year, as well as dealing with an avid marxist, I also learnt about increasing conversions, using my own made up set of guidelines called ifumes. Before I get into what ifumes are, I’ll explain to you my thinking process. (More …)
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The Avid Marxist
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Last year in 2010, I ran Your Price v1 for 4 months, and I learnt a lot about business and handling people online, for that time. I’m sure I didn’t learn any social skills, but I learnt something about people. I’ve learnt that when you handle people’s money, you also learn about the people you give the money to. I don’t know why, but that’s the way it is. (More …)
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v2 is here
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38% of people believe that Your Price needs a redesign. Well guess what? I’ve worked on a new design for v2, as I knew that the v1 design needed improvement.
The v2 design is modelled to be reminiscent of a wallet. (The design word for this is affordance.) Another improvement of the design is a better colour theme, and that the content flows better as things are contained within a more sensible grid, and black bordered lines. The information bar is new too.
Below you can see a comparison between v1 and v2.