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Nonsense Site Feedback
Went through the whole site. Overall looks clean but it is still confusing.
I want to know exactly
1. How it works
2. Who it is for. Is it for learning english or learning another language?
Here are my stream of reactions as I scrolled.
1. Don’t just show movies on the homepage. Show me a little of how it will actually work. I discount it because just showing movie footage is lazy. Makes you look cool, but doesn’t show me the value.
2. Don't just show me a list of movie posters. Cool artwork, but how will I learn from the movie?
3. The text “A new learning experience powered by stories.” is fluff. What are you actually saying? New doesn’t equal better. Learning experience = what? Powered by stories = I get that already the first two pages are all about movies.
4. “We use the power of Hollywood movies and AI to create a guided immersion experience.” Mostly fluff. Hollywood = they have big name films which is cool. AI = gives me a clue at how you are creating it. But other than that not super helpful.
5. The screenshot of kung fu panda with words at the bottom is the first valuable image on the whole site. That should be at the top of your page. You could have the movie playing full screen then shrink to fit the phone as you scroll if you want to make it fancy.
6. The 3 points on this page “Stories and characters you already love. Emotional moments that stick with you. Context your brain needs make sense of language” are good. Those are evidence of why you are better, but make them much clearer. Contrast the old way. Learning random stories ‘where is the grocery store’ vs stories you love. ‘Where is the bathroom’ vs ‘emotional moments that stick’. ‘Random vocab words’ vs ‘context you need to make sense of a language’
7. "An invisible learning engine. Our Artificial Intelligence creates the perfect learning path for you” = fluff. Pics of the interface or at least how it works or it didn’t happen. :) Don’t tell me you have the perfect learning path. Show me how that would work. Something like 'pick the language you want to learn, and we will suggest words to focus on. We show you scenes that contain those words and concepts'.
8. The focus section is interesting. But ‘scene feed’ you haven’t talked about that at all. What is a scene feed? I assume you give me scenes to watch based on the words I want to learn?
9. Confusing text “Follow the highlighted words as you watch each scene.” What does that mean? Is it like sing along where the highlight shows what word is being said? If so make that much clearer. Something like ‘As you watch the scene, the words being spoken are highlighted’.
10. “Get contextual descriptions instantly for each word and expression.” Could be clearer. Something like ‘tap any word to get instant context and descriptions’
11. “Premium allows you to get more out of Nonsense.” - didn’t know there was non premium. If there is two plans, present them. 'Try for Free with ads, or get premium to get more.' Then explain premium.
12. Language to learn dropdown NEEDS a search bar. I had to scroll a lot to find Portugues. Or skip that question and send them a follow up email with that question so they respond.
13. ‘Hope you're excited for impending nonsense!’ I don’t like this line. Makes it feel silly and like I wasted my time?
14. One important thing is do you have movies in other languages? Like if I know English and want to learn other languages, I have a hard time finding movies in those languages. Is this for learning English or learning another language?
15. Nonsense doesn’t make make… sense :) as a the company name. Is it because other languages sound like nonsense?
16. Get the app button does nothing. Make it scroll to waitlist at least.
17. Hamburger menu is not needed. You only have 2 options in there, just list those.
18. Language picker button does nothing. At least flash a highlight or pop a ‘coming soon’ toast.
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