Why I'm becoming more and more convinced that UX/UI is a MAJOR bottleneck for author visibility (Plus a bounty!)
steemit·@blakemiles84·
0.000 HBDWhy I'm becoming more and more convinced that UX/UI is a MAJOR bottleneck for author visibility (Plus a bounty!)
## Everyday I wake up in the morning, one of the first things I do when I get to the computer is head to [the Drudge Report](www.drudgereport.com). Say what you want about the political angle... that is not the purpose of this article. ### What do you see when you jump onto the Drudge Report? A LOT. Quickly. Easily. The eyes naturally flow over the simple to read words connected only by negative space and divided by a thin line to denote different stories. Some pictures are embedded near the news links. The *important* posts are bright red, and almost become a game to 'see whats red on Drudge today'. There is a reason that Drudge is one of the top news sites in the world for many, many years. Drudge's first breaking news story was the Monica Lewinsky scandal back in '98, and its been climbing ever since. <center> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blakemiles/hello-world/2fa32ed3a87794c00095db14ce43ba9982847866/Screenshot%202016-09-08%2003.05.38.png </center> His approach is simple: take the biggest news stories, condense the headlines into simple, easy to read blurbs of text that tell the reader the most important component of the story in just a few words, fill the page with those blurbs, move the stories that aren't performing down or off the page altogether, biggest stories go to the top in big red with pictures. ### And it works... really well. <center>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blakemiles/hello-world/2fa32ed3a87794c00095db14ce43ba9982847866/Screenshot%202016-09-08%2003.09.11.png</center> ### So what does this have to do with Steemit? Not a day goes by where I don't stumble on some random users name, click to their blog posts, and scroll down a ways before I find a headline that stands out. I click to read a bit more and I'm amazed to have found a gem that I would have never seen were I not stumbling around in the alleys and darkened corridors of the Steemit infrastructure. <center> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blakemiles/hello-world/2fa32ed3a87794c00095db14ce43ba9982847866/Screenshot%202016-09-08%2003.09.29.png</center> If you look at the main page right now (or any page on Steemit for that matter), AT MOST, you can see ~7 posts at one glance without scrolling down. Its far easier for the eyes to dance across the screen than it is to scroll down... and down... and down... past all the nonsense posts and garbage people throw at the wall in the hopes it will somehow stick. Eventually, I find a gem and get back to reading. If there were more visible posts per screen view, there will be more impressions per post and more of a likelihood that your well-written post will get seen by more people and hopefully upvoted. ## The Bounty I'll stake a 50 SBD bounty for someone to develop a framework for getting more posts per page as a demonstration. The demonstration must pull in posts from the Steemit blockchain and format them to maximize post headline per page, while still maintaining functionality of upvotes. Bonus 25 SBD for added options to adjust (ie thumbnails, first sentence preview, number of columns/rows). If you're interested, please comment below and estimate a time frame. If there are more than one interested parties, I'll make a follow-up post for Steemians to vote on the best designs to determine who will receive the reward.
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