LemonBricks – Social Property Search for the UK

2 thoughts on “LemonBricks – Social Property Search for the UK”

1. 1) Look around the home page – what is your initial impression of what you see?
   I personally think the homage gives a descent impression on the company, it is white, very simple and user friendly. The Homepage also have a facebook wedge on it. it is good.  but it would have been better if you made it a bit more modern homepage with some decent animation, It would have made the website moe interesting.
   2) Think of a location in the UK, somewhere you’d like to move to. Type it into the home page search bar and select buy or rent. This is our map search facility. What do you think of it? On the top right corner of the map, there is a red button that says list view. Click it. This is our list search facility. What do you think of it?
   I Like both of them, under the map facility you can set your budget and number of bedroom you need and all but on listings you get to see the interior photos and address of the resident.
   3) Try searching in various locations using both the map and list search. Which do you prefer? Do you think they’re both good – perhaps for different reasons? What are those reasons?
   I would like to use both search because I think both of them have it’s own advantages (as I mentioned in the answer of second question)
   4) If you are from the UK, would you prefer using our platform instead of other competitor sites? Would you recommend our site to a friend in the UK?
   So far I think your site is a decent one, so I definitely will give it a shot , and I would recommend it to other people  
   5) Our competitors include, homes.trovit.co.uk and nestoria.co.uk
   Is our site better? In what respect? What is better or their site?
   Well Trovit has a better home page than you do and netoria’s graphic features are not that impressive. But both of them have a lot more listing than your website, however your website is better when it comes to sorting the users priority like numbes of bedrooms and rent amount etc ..
    
    

2. ** The URL in the test assignment is broken. As a work around I used http://www.lemonbricks.com to complete this test.

   1) Look around the home page – what is your initial impression of what you see?

   I thought the home page could be more organized and could promote the intention of the website. There are different font formats/sizes used across different tabs on the home page, which I didn’t think was appealing. Certain aspects could have been promoted better, for instance encouraging users to Join / Login – by emphasizing these using bold letters (as in ‘LemonBricks on Facebook‘)

   Another observation and my point of view is that the Page title  – ‘LemonBricks’ could have the text ‘in partnership with HomeCo and Adzuna‘  below and thereby ‘Supporting Cancer Research UK. Find out more‘ could have been placed somewhere else on this page instead of placing this right below the title in the table. Users would be distracted and may be tempted to first select the ‘Find out more’ link. This takes away focus from the fact that the primary intention here is to promote the website and get users to use the search option on this page. 

   2) Think of a location in the UK, somewhere you’d like to move to. Type it into the home page search bar and select buy or rent. This is our map search facility. What do you think of it? On the top right corner of the map, there is a red button that says list view. Click it. This is our list search facility. What do you think of it?

   This worked well and displays the Map View and List View as expected. The list view gives me the results as expected for Rent and Buy. However, when I select a location on the map – it displays a scrollable list of properties on rent, but the header on each of these properties states ‘for sale’. This seems confusing to the user. 

   To reproduce: 
   a. Enter Perivale –> Rent
   b. On the Map – Choose the List View. Note properties displayed. 
   c. Now toggle to the map view and choose a property location. See that properties displayed state ‘xyz bedroom apartment for sale’

   3) Try searching in various locations using both the map and list search. Which do you prefer? Do you think they’re both good – perhaps for different reasons? What are those reasons?
   The views for both list and map are useful. However for reason mentioned in my answer to point#2, I see more accurate results being viewed in the List View. 

   4) If you are from the UK, would you prefer using our platform instead of other competitor sites? Would you recommend our site to a friend in the UK?
    Yes if the above anomalies were rectified.

   5) Our competitors include, homes.trovit.co.uk and nestoria.co.uk. Is our site better? In what respect? What is better or their site?

   I find nestoria to be very clustered but have used homes.trovit.co.uk before. A comparison would imply that the LemonBricks website needs to focus more on the primary purpose of this website. As mentioned in my point#1,currently the homepage seems to have lost this purpose amidst other details. Once done, LemonBricks will be a good site since its offering a more neatly organized, easy to view approach and will surely encourage users to use this site.  
    
    

    

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