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How does this landing page make you feel?

Baqwara just relaunched its landing page at https://baqwara.com
I would love to hear feedback from you about our landing page :)
Any suggestions are welcome!

on October 22, 2019
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    Hello 👋

    Peer to peer learning is pretty interesting.

    The page is simple and clear, but also short on details and polish.
    I think the video explains it well (the what), but it would be good to show how it works (the how).
    The voice-over accent is quite strong and a little difficult to understand sometimes.

    I’d suggest more focus on “the why” peer to peer learning is a good option.

    As others have noted, it’s a very broad offer. Everything from Math to Pizza making. You’d probably do well to start with a specific, key customer segment in mind - eg. students cramming for exams or aspiring web developers. This helps you be more specific for your copy/messaging and targeting them online for marketing efforts. You can always expand later when you’ve nailed the foundation of the product.

    If you decided to do that, then target an easy to find audience with high demand, who hungry to learn and to share knowledge, for both experts and learners. And consider how you’ll attract each! This can be tough.

    The flip side would be to try and get this into organisations - but that poses a whole new set of challenges and different messaging again.

    HTH

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      Hello Shaunau! Thank you very much for your feedback. I really appreciate your help. It is tough not keep it broad as our audience is diverse (even if small) for now, but it makes sense to focus on one segment, so that's what we are going to do next. Thanks again!

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    Looks nice although the position of the Sign up and log in button is making me feel uneasy. Feels like it should have the same padding on the right side as the left sides menu

    To add a bit more, it seems like the entire top of the page is offset to the left compared to the bottom containers and footer which are centred.

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      Thank you! We will work on that :)

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    Simple, elegant and clear but would be nice to see some example cases (teacher/student) to relate more to, as the concept seems very broad.

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      Thank you very much for your honest feedback. I'll try to insert some example cases :)

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    It seems that you have designed a page on a low-resolution screen.
    If I zoom in for about 175% then everything aligns!
    Learn more about responsive design.
    https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_responsive.asp

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    Sorry but I feel like others, the design is not looking good. You need to retouch pretty everything..

    • as @Primer said, it looks as a cheap bootstrap page
    • inconsistent alignment (some sections are left aligned, some centered)
    • some huge spacing in first section
    • navbar: same background color for both buttons (eg: try to use outline for login in, so sign up gains more attention)
    • navbar: should be center aligned
    • as @csallen said, white left block is so off topic with that gradient background
    • the video placeholder looks bad with current setup (eg: try a manual image as preview or style its container)
    • the long buttons are looking bad
    • the footer looks empty and the passing from blue to white doesn't look good
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    "A learning network where regular people come to teach and learn hobbies, subjects and skills."

    This text sums your product very well, but it is below the fold, it should be as high as it can be.

    Also your layout is not centered in a 1920x1080 screen

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    It's pretty simple, which can be good, but there's nothing that jumps out at me and makes me want read more. I think you should focus less on what your site does in the text and focus more on what problems your users have and how you solve them. I think the video does a better job of this, but it still has a ways to go (and should be 30-60 seconds, in my opinion. 2 mins is too long).

    No offense, but the accent of the person on the video is a bit hard to understand (for example, took me a few times to realize the person was name "Bill"), which is very concerning for a site that's about learning. Now I'm worried the lessons will also have accents that make it harder to understand.

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      Hi, Josh!

      Thank you very much! We received similar feedback about the video and we're thinking about replacing it with our first users' cases :)

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    I think it works well in having the barebones in place, though it does feel like it’s maybe missing a more obvious title/top panel with a clearer call to action.

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      Thank you, Deweysi! We'll work on getting a clearer CTA.

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      Or use a template :)

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      Thank you, Primer. I really appreciate your honest feedback. Would you mind elaborating on which specific points make you feel like that?

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        Baqwara

        You're not going to become a star designer overnight or anything, but here are a few tips:

        • Align things consistently. Everything above the video is awkwardly shifted to the left side of the page, and everything below is centered. You should pick one alignment and stick with it.
        • Space things consistently. Related things should be closer together, and unrelated things should be further apart. For example, most sections have a lot of padding between their outer edges and their content, but for some reason the middle section's padding is tiny — the video and the "join now" button are right up against the edge of the middle section.
        • Size things consistently. You have normal width buttons above the video, but the "join now" buttons below the video are super wide.
        • Color things consistently. The white background for the box in the top left is totally random. But besides that, your color scheme is consistent and sensible, kudos.

        Basically, decent design is just consistency across the page so it doesn't look like a hodgepodge of different things. You don't have to get fancy or anything. You're pretty close as-is. It's mostly just everything above the video that's inconsistently aligned and spaced.

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        Or use a template/theme and change it to your need :) Speaking as a backend engineer with limited front end skills - that's way easier than coming up with a good-looking theme yourself.

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          Second this. If you're aren't a professional designer or practicing to become one, there's no point in trying to design things from scratch. There are hundreds of thousands of great-looking templates out there on the web that you can use and tweak.

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