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Re: Latest Ravelry kerfuffle
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI have not caught up with everyone¡¯s posts yet but I certainly found that even a few minutes on the site caused me eyestrain and I don¡¯t have a disability or eye problem. Jaya posted the fix to return to the traditional site and that is where I have stayed. ? I really felt that the gimmicks like the dancing on screen llama were like the kinds of things my kids used to put into powerpoints fifteen years ago just to show they could. Not particularly clever, ?not vey adult, didn¡¯t add anything to the working of the site. I wondered if the redesign was partly to make it easier for people scrolling on phone screens, and the most recent comments from Jess etc do seem to imply that. ? I think your summary of the issues is spot on Jaya, and when it all started I reported the story to my DH who groaned and said just because you can doesn¡¯t mean you should¡±. Also if you get your feedback from invested yes-men it is not going to be worth much. ? I felt that the design and the gimmicks like the prancing llama and ¡°super cute¡± new features ?like cartoon stickers had been prioritised over functionality. ? I was shocked at the attitudes when it was rolled out with a request to tell them honestly what we thought , followed by sulky hostility to all less than-delighted responses. Also the survey we were invited to take, which assumed that the less than happy all ¡°had a disability¡± and very much seemed to? imply that this was the fault of those people. ? Stay safe everyone, Jenny ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan
Sent: 01 August 2020 14:30 To: yarnmongers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Latest Ravelry kerfuffle ? The issues people had were not minor, if you believe them. I believe there were some who had serious issues and many people?who had eyestrain. The issues were severe migraines and potentially seizures (I heard of one) from the blinding whiteness due to expanse of white space and heavy black contrast, ? The entire redesign was mishandled as a software project, with insufficient beta testing, and a very small invested focus group to approve it. The rollout was mishandled, coming during a pandemic when people were already stressed. The staff was invested in the new design and has and continues to respond badly. Not rolling back the new design till problems were fixed, locking and archiving threads where people expressed their issues and problems, and posting a very upbeat intro post that was planned ahead fo time and tone-deaf coming after the issues surfaved. ? Cassidy having mental health problems sounds like a good reason for all this to happen. She was calling the shots and was probably the most invested in the new design, except for the UX designer (who I don't think actually has the qualifications to do UX design because the process followed was not how UX design is meant to work. I think she worked on UX design projects based my reading between the lines on her website). ? On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:08 PM Therese Shere <therese.shere@...> wrote:
? -- Jaya |