Warning: This Will Make You Hungry (for more Polling)

Here at Poll Everywhere, we are absolutely dependent on our mobile phones. We check email on the go, read the news when we first wake up in bed, work and play (patiently) while waiting in line, and sometimes even make or take a call.

Like everyone else, we love beautiful design.  Lots of companies focus on making a site beautiful first, and often run out of time for things like function and scalability. That’s not us. Our number one goal is to make a product that you know you can trust in the most demanding of presentation situations. So for a long time the look and feel of our mobile experience was of secondary importance, and that was painful, even to us.  We’d “dogfood” our releases (that’s startup talk for using our product) and cringe. Now that we’ve finished the new mobile functionality such as on-the-fly poll creation, moderation, etc; we finally got to turn our attention to making things beautiful.

Wait, you might be thinking, didn’t Poll Everywhere just release a new presenter tool for mobile?  Yes, yes we did.  (Thanks for paying attention, and if you haven’t seen that blog post, please check it out, because it’s HOT STUFF). So what’s new? If the previous mobile release was the steak for the presenter, this mobile release is all about the sizzle for the audience. Below you’ll see some highlights of our extreme mobile makeover.  As Jonny Ive might say at an Apple release: “it’s our best mobile experience yet.”

Home Page

Shown automatically when visiting polleverywhere.com from any smart phone

Before: The Home Page Like a black and white movie. Classic, but still….
After: The Home Page. Like the moment when Dorothy steps into Oz after the Tornado.

 

Voting Page

Shown automatically when accessing polleverywhere.com/vote from any smart phone

Before: The Landing Page. Cryptic for new participants. URL bar reduces screen space.
After: The Landing Page. Better instructions. Less clutter. Easier to read. Removed URL Bar.

Waiting Page

Also known as Pie.  Tasty, Tasty Pie. Shown when the audience is waiting for a presenter to push a poll or start a presentation.

Before: Pie Page
After: Pie Page

Multiple Choice Polls

Our bread and butter.

Before: Multiple Choice Polls. Nice, but wow, what a snoozer. Let’s wake everybody up!
After: Multiple Choice Polls. Who wouldn’t want to participate?

Free Text Polls

Our Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Before: Free Text Polls. Functional, but won’t win any awards.
After: Free Text Polls show all previous answers. And it’s pretty, too!

What do you think? Does this help your experience? Did this post make you hungry? Let us know in the comments!

Ashok, our Marketer, enjoys growing the business and crunching numbers. He held Marketing, Analytics & Engineering roles at Nokia, Yahoo!, Harrahs and JDSU. He has an MBA from UChicago Booth School and a Ph.D. from USC.