Sunday, March 8, 2009

Alpha feedback

Friend #1
  1. Found that USA calling Philippines returned an error.
  2. Suggested having a "submit" (e.g. Lookup) button.
  3. Likes the design and simplicity, and the idea as a whole.
Friend #2
  1. Found that USA to China, and United States of America to China returned an error.
  2. Likes the general design and idea.
  3. "I think you should have a little explanation of what the site is on the first page and not rely on the domain name alone."
Friend #3
  1. "Usability can't be beat"
  2. Likes the idea as a whole, and said he assume the data is accurate.
Friend #4
  1. Wasn't sure why "Great Britain" didn't show up as an option.
  2. Liked the idea a lot.

Friend #5
  1. "If you select a country in the first bar and then try to change it (like you selected the wrong country) it doesn't seem to let you select a new country"
  2. "It would be cool if you could enter the number you have and it would tell you what you have/need. For instance, if it told you that what you had already included the area code and you needed the country code."
  3. "Planning to link it to Skype?"

Take aways
  1. There seemed to have been a bug with some of the data storage. I cleared memcache, and both China and Philippines work again. Not sure what happened exactly, but I'll be watching for this. I may want to set up some monitoring to catch this in the future.
  2. Added "USA" as an option, in addition to "United States of America"
  3. Added "Great Britain" as an option, in addition to "United Kingdom"
  4. Added a heading to the main page that hopefully makes it obvious what this page is
  5. Some GREAT ideas from Friend #5. I've added these to the backlog to consider down the road.

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