Monday, October 1, 2007
Yahoo Avataars
Until tonight I personally had no idea what an avataar was. Mainly because I do not normally use anything is related to Yahoo. When I first saw these avataars they reminded me of the little paper dress up dolls I had a child. I believe that avataars are a cute idea but just not something I would use. I think this is to due to how I relate them to paper dolls an item that a child would play with. I think yahoo could do something to disconnect the avataars with a childlike image. One thing I did like was how you how the options to dress your avataar in clothing featuring MTV and Pepsi. One thing I found to be annoying was navigating through the apparel. Although it was broken down into categories, looking through 20 pages of shirts was not appealing. I feel as though yahoo could divide these broad categories even more. Perhaps into categories to include long of short sleeve shits, or tank tops. This would help avoid the frustration of clicking through 20 pages. With only six items on a page they could feature more items to help shrink the amount of pages.
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3 comments:
Good suggestions! Esp about dividing into even more categories.
Do you think it would be more appealing as an application used on Myspace/Facebook?
I think that on myspace/facebook the appeal is that it is more like real life and that avatars are expected to be real pictures of the person.
I too hated looking through so many shirts. I think they can organize that better by putting the shirts into different age groups. Some shirts were for older adults whereas some were for the young adult/junior population.
Also I thought it was funny how you thought of them as paper dolls. When I read that I was like Wow they really do look like them! haha
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