Whitney Hess, UX Coach - Latest Comments in Yahoo!’s Shine

Re: Yahoo!’s Shine

Tom Daly — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:17:26 -0000

Check out Amberjack [ http://amberjack2.org/ ] for a cool tutorial widget. It even does inter-page tutorials, linking from an object on one page to an object on another page.

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Stephan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:08:00 -0000

"obvious lack of enthusiasm for the subject matter" ? :-) Stephan

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Michael J. Pratt — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:17:30 -0000

1. Nice to see Yahoo paying attention to who is saying what about them. re xian. More importantly, however, is the lack of transparency on just where they are getting all the content from. They claim it's from blogs all over but checking the Fashion & Beauty section, for our own research purposes (and to perhaps consider joining the conversation if we can) you find very few blogs and mostly stuff from writers at Allure, Lucky or Shine editorial staff. They don't link directly to these places and to subscribe you have to sign in and go thru Yahoo processes. There is also no listing at all of the contributors. It's practically as closed a system as Facebook. That's fine, of course, Yahoo can do what it wants, but seems to go against their mantra expressed as a place to get the best of the web for women, etc. All that said, we'll try to get in on the fun as you can't argue with 40mm girls!

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xian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:08:12 -0000

Hey, Whitney. Thanks for the feedback. That little guided tour you tried out uses something we call Feature Cues (and, yes, they're in the queue to become a pattern eventually).

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Natalie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:07:36 -0000

I tend to agree with you. It sometimes feels condescending or cliche to always see pink on a site for women, as though if it weren't pink I'd think I was in the wrong place?

And content-wise, so far I haven't spent a lot of time on the site but from what I've seen it seems like people were chosen to write and then trusted to write something of quality based on their name, reputation, employer, etc. and the content never filtered. I've seen a few things that should probably be on a blog somewhere instead of a site for women's resources (or maybe it's designed to be a big blog).

Another good thing I noticed though, the rss changes with each section you navigate to, so if I only want the parenting feed I don't have to go looking for it.