Posts Tagged ‘ideas’

• Mon, Aug 2 2010

  Your Week’s About To Get A Lil’ Different

  By jess at 10:47 am

  Evaluation for product 0054 just launched. You may have noticed some sweet changes to the page format…

  

  And it doesn’t stop there. Ben went into more detail on the new submission/evaluation format a few weeks ago, but I wanted to lay out how exactly these changes will affect our/your weekly schedule.

  MONDAY 11am(ish) EST   idea submission ends, community evaluation launches

  TUESDAY all day   community evaluation

  WEDNESDAY 12noon EST   community evaluation ends, staff evaluation launches

  THURSDAY all day   staff evaluation, deep dive on top ideas

  FRIDAY 3pm(ish) EST   model shop meeting to determine the week’s winner, announcement of Quirky’s next product
  

  THE WEEKEND tweak ideas for resubmission, treat symptoms of Quirky withdrawal, etc.

  Put simply, you guys will get two days to vote, rate, and comment on the ideas up for eval. Then, our staff will spend time doing a deep dive on the top-voted ideas to identify design potential, market potential, and viability. Each submission will get a score, and those scores will go public once the round ends.

  We good? Good. Now back to voting!

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• Thu, Jun 17 2010

  Get Your Bulb On

  By gaz at 3:55 pm

  

  If I had to think of one icon to represent you guys out there in the Quirkisphere, it would have to be the light bulb. I can practically see blazes of light popping up all over the interweb as you guys come up with your next great idea submissions!

  So in celebration of the humble bulb, here are some links to new bulb trends!

  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/hot-trend-old-fashioned-incandescent-lightbulbs.php

  http://www.klipsch.com/LightSpeaker/Products/ProductPage.aspx

  http://www.plumen.com/

  http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/07/24/led-bud-lighting-up/

  http://www.notcot.com/archives/2010/05/light-bulbs-of-gramercy-park-h.php

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• Fri, Feb 26 2010

  Pulse On The Community

  By jess at 6:18 pm

  

  To regroup after the craziness of the move, we held our first Community Pulse meeting in our new model shop (pictured above) to discuss all things related to YOU, our wacky, quirky, infinitely loyal community. This weekly meeting is just one of many ways we’re working to improve the Quirky experience.

  Here are just a few of the many, many things we discussed:

  - Creating a central dashboard so that when you log onto our system, you can immediately view new activity on the site, receive notifications, track the projects you’re influencing, be alerted to follow-up comments on forum threads you’ve posted, etc.

  - Demystifying our influence engine by creating a number of graphics that clearly illustrate various influence earning scenarios.

  - Improving our idea submission process in such a way that makes it easier to peruse and compare submissions. This will be important as the number of submissions per week continues to grow.

  - Recognizing active Quirks with a badge/reward system, and rewarding those who have been particularly successful with social sales. We now have a “User of the Week,” who receives a free product idea submission and recognition in the weekly newsletter, but we want to do more!

  - SWAG! By popular demand, we are working with our branding folks to come up with a super slick line of Quirky products, which will hopefully go up for sale in the Quirky store soon.

  These changes, and the others we discussed, will take some time to implement, but we’re working hard to get the ball rolling now. Please continue to let us know what you think about these and other ideas and improvements. If you couldn’t tell by now, we value your opinions!

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