Posts Tagged "online dating"

I know, I’m on a roll with 3 blog posts about OKCupid this week. I’m negatively shocked by what they’ve been doing both as a UX professional and as one of their success stories. While researching more news about the Dec 2017 real names policy, I also found that in July 2017, OKCupid decided that […]

The response to yesterday’s OKCupid announcement that they will get rid of usernames and move to real names has been met with nearly 100% negativity from former and current users (including me). The company edited their original blog post announcement to make slight changes to try to calm the villagers with torches. Some people started […]

OKCupid just announced that they’re not going to allow made up names anymore. Note: As people are freaking out and deleting accounts en masse, they are editing this blog post to slightly change the policy. This blog post was written when OKC said they were going to force real names only. This is a huge […]

I’ve recently been poking around an online dating site. No, I’m not single. I’m wildly happy with Mr Right, and we’re moving into a rental house together soon. I had a job interview at a dating site about a month ago, and they wanted me to get to know the site. So I am. Yes, […]

I’ve noticed on a few sites that a scale they give you doesn’t really mean what it turns out to mean. Take eBay. They found that their feedback system of positive, neutral, and negative wasn’t really doing the job. They created 4 criteria, and let people rate 1 through 5 stars. So if you ask […]

I have a photo album on Facebook called “Online Dating WTFs.” I screen shot CRAZY photos and/or bios of people to share the comedy with my friends. I keep wanting to upload this to that album, but I have to remember this wasn’t from OK Cupid. This was from when I unsubscribed from the AppSumo […]

I guess I feel badly for this guy because I’m trying to hide his identity… but only somewhat. I logged into OKCupid to find this staring at me on the home page like he’s some sort of featured guy. What caught my eye fairly quickly was his username. This reminds me of when I try […]

This sounds like another of my dating advice posts, but it’s definitely not. It’s about the usability of a dating website that claims to be one of the best on the planet. I’m paying for eHarmony right now. Call it an experiment as I don’t really expect to find much there. Making a new friend […]

Oh, eHarmony. I wish you were hiring for a UX person. I find your site so frustrating. Today, let’s take a look at my home dashboard sort-of page. This is what I see after I log in. Well, it’s mainly what I see. There’s top and bottom stuff, and a pile of crap in a […]

I’ve been on and off online dating sites for years now, and I’m back on. It’s amazing that as far as they’ve come, there is still one area where they have it really wrong. This would affect just about every user each site has, and I’m surprised they haven’t done more about it. The issue: […]