From now on, you don’t have to go to a poll’s page in order to leave a comment. Our brand new comment box appears right on the homepage poll (right after you select an option), allowing you to leave a quick comment right then and there. Go ahead - comment away!
We’ve just launched two major changes on Pollsb. The first is a new “Answer Me” box on the homepage, that shows you which people vote like you. It’ll make it way easier to find people you share opinions with, and hopefully match you up with the right Pollsb crowd. It’s just the first from a list of cool features we’re planning for that box on the homepage. Let’s just say, it’s going to be your ticket for the Pollsb ride. We’ve also cleaned up the homepage a bit and made it more neat and organized.
Another big (huge!) change is our new user page which was completely redesigned, and includes a set of profile questions for each user to fill out. Questions range from “Do you Smoke?” to “Do you believe in god?” and are awesome ways to let other people know more about you. We’ll be adding/switching questions as we go along. In the future, we’re going to do some pretty cool stuff with your answers to these questions and how they relate to your opinions… but we’re still keeping these plans hush-hush. Another great big change is an “Answer Me” box on your user page, that allows visitors to answer all of your questions right there on your page.
Still here? What are you waiting for? Go fix your new user page!
Work on the new homepage is still underway. Red-eyed, scruffy developers crowd the water cooler as the race enters its last phase. We’ve been playing with the monster for a week now, and we like it a lot. It will certainly make an impace on the site.
One dilemma we still have, and wish to share with you, is the Obsessive Pollsters dilemma: as you can see, the bottom of our new homepage is dedicated to top users. It includes the following weekly charts:
We’re not 100% sure about that last term. What do you think? Should we keep calling it Obsessive pollsters? Or should we change it to something else? got any specific ideas? Let us know.
Vote and comment on our poll:
It’s crunch time here. Will the team make it with a ready for QA homepage on Thursday? Who will win the office pool? (we placed bets on the date in which the new homepage will be ready). In the meantime, here’s another great homepage feature: the Pollsb spirit:
The spirit section is a graphical interpretation of the most discussed topics of that week on Pollsb. So, for example, the more political polls get posted, the bigger the politics chunk of the pie chart will be. The drop down menu will also allow you to see the pie chart for different demographics of the general voter population on Pollsb. It’ll show you the most dominant age group in the site, as well as where most voters come from, and what’s the gender segmentation for any given week.
Day two of our homepage marathon.
Spent some time last night reading all of the comments we received on the homepage poll. Most of you loved it. Some thought it was a bit too busy. We suspect it appears busier than it actually is in the screenshot: the actual design is much bigger, and will spread across your entire screen. At least that’s the opinion of our design guru:
Today I want to write a bit about one of the most exciting elements of our new homepage: the “Your Feeds” section.
Appearing only when a user is logged into the site, and taking the center stage of the new homepage, is a new feed box that will hopefully revolutionize the way you use Pollsb.
It looks something like this (click on the image to enlarge):
The feed box will make it easier to stay on top of everything that’s going on with the site. It’ll notify you whenever someone replies to a comment you made or commented on your polls or on your user page. It’ll let you know when friends of yours post new polls, or vote. It’ll update you on votes your polls are getting, and even send you a notice when a friend of yours adds someone as a friend.
We hope this box will become the first thing you look at, when you log into pollsb, and we designed it to match with lots of feedback we received on our current activity section. As usual, we’d love to get your opinion on this new feature, so just comment here, or send feedback a message on the site. We appreciate it.
We’ve been secretive about it, but the rumors are true: Pollsb is about to refresh its front page with a whole new look and feel.
Some major changes include moving to a larger screen resolution of 1024×768, featuring results as well as polls, and adding a feed box with updates on your polls, comments, and friends.
People here at the office have already began playing with this beast of a page, testing it out and debugging. We have Thursday set as a possible launch date. So this week at Pollsb HQ, is all about the homepage: design, functionality, bugs, and interface.
I’m going to post updates as the week progresses, and try and get as much feedback from pollsb users as I can. to start, here’s a sneak preview of the new design (click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image). I’d love to hear some first impressions. Just message me on the site with your input, or leave a comment here.
We’ve been trying to figure this one out for a long time:
When we started pollsb.com, we wanted to try a social connection model that’s similar to flickr and twitter’s: a one way connection in which anyone can add you as a pollster and get your polls on their pollster feed.
Lately though, we’re thinking about a social network model where one user “requests” friendship from the other, and has to be confirmed to be his friend (like on myspace and facebook).
We’d love to get some feedback on the subject. And so, we’ve made a poll about it:
And then, there was the Polls Boutique blog.
It took us a while to post this blog. Too long, if I may say so. It’s not like we didn’t see the need to start one: blogs are such central pillars in today’s web development process. The truth is, we were so busy creating Polls Boutique, that we didn’t get around to doing it. And here we are, 9 months since we launched our Alpha, starting our own blog! Wooohoooo!
Polls Boutique is a tiny company. Seven people all in all, front to back. You can see almost all of us here (note the funny hats):
Our vision for Polls Boutique is to create a social destination that revolves around people’s opinions. A way to meet people who have the same (or the opposite) opinions as yours, a way to learn about your friends, make new friends and even discover your own opinions, through voting.
We also want to let people use our poll tool everywhere on the web: on blogs, social networks, websites, and message boards. And we want to let people be able to make poll any way they want: with full customization and the ability to embed any rich media (video, audio, links etc). More on that in the next post, where we’ll be discussing our new poll widget.
