Demo Girl

I sign up and navigate through a lot of different Websites and services every single day so I can create screencasts to help my readers decide if they want to try them out or not. In doing this, I notice every little detail from arriving to the site, to locating my account settings, to signing out. It’s my job to know where the help pages are, how to change a password, and how to generally navigate through whatever site I’m currently creating a screencast for. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ditched a service that I actually thought was kind of cool, but navigation was so horrible that I didn’t want to share it with you here – And that’s the topic of the screencast today.

I want to know if I’m crazy or if the very minor issues I’m showing you really do matter. I don’t think enough start-ups realize that it’s not only important to have a functioning site, but a functional site as well. What do you think? Let me know what issues bother you in the comments after you watch the screencast below:

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I’m a little bummed out this morning. It seems that craigslist is blocking crgslst. LAME. I just want to point one thing out — yesterday I was looking on craigslist for an apartment (no roomy, don’t fret I’m just looking for fun). While I was there I also checked out scooters and cars. This morning, I quickly went to crgslst to search for a desk. Too bad I couldn’t search for one because I received this message: “Help! Craigslist has blocked our beloved service. Please help by sending an email to blocks-b10101@craigslist.org on our behalf.”. The reason I went to crgslst this morning and not craigslist is because crgslst is better to search for things, like a desk, quickly and I can come back to my searches. I’ll still visit craigslist because it has some things that crgslst doesn’t. Please kids, can we play together nicely like our Moms and Dads always taught us too?