Engage (blog) has launched a Facebook application and redesigned the site.
AwesomeIntros, is a fun game that relies on your intuition to introduce people to a person they’ve never met before. You just vote on the person you think Engage should introduce to the guy or girl in the poll and we do the rest… you can even put yourself in the game. You could help us out a lot if you take a moment to “fan†the application, and if you have a few minutes, jump on and play. AND, if you like it, go share it with all your friends!
Here are a few photos of the primary pages in AwesomeIntros.
The first screen, shown at left, is where you look at the person on the left, and pick the person on the right you think they should go out with. Basically like HotOrNo, there is no link to the profile, you guess and then see what other people guessed.
I have an Engage account, and see there is an option to enter in my username and password, which I do. Otherwise, you’re asked the usual name, age, gender, zip code questions, which I gather creates a new account on Engage, but I’m never told this explicitly, so who knows? I hate this kind of ambiguity. What are you doing with my data?
After I log in, I see that I need three favorites before I can “make poll.” I have to “grab a few hotties on search” before I can continue. This screenshot confused me and is where the application starts to fall apart. How do I act on the verb “grab hotties” here? Do I add to favorites, email or tag them? Do people know what tags are? I have no idea what to click, so we’re in trial and error mode. Not a good idea to leave the users guessing what to do. I added someone as a Favorite,
Then I tried to email someone, and I get redirected to Engage saying I have to pay $5.95 a month to be a premium member in order to email them. The only way to go back is to use the browser back button.
Why does search never stop? It just keeps going and going, not sure what to do next.
The link to profiles and inbox goes to Engage.com. It feels weird to change modes from Facebook to Engage.
AwesomeIntros is a decent first effort, with some rough edges, feature ambiguity and issues switching back and forth between Facebook and the Engage website.
