Design Public

Hey everybody! Thanks for taking the time to participate in our Newsletter feedback survey! The response was overwhelming and to my pleasant surprise, no one berated me or raked me over the coals. People even seem to – gasp – like us…Huzzah!

You shared your opinions already, it’s only fair I share some of the results of the survey and offer some commentary by yours truly:

1. “The newsletters are too narrow…”
   The newsletters are designed to fit the preview pane in Microsoft Outlook which is only about 600 or so pixels wide. If they were much wider portions of the newsletter could be cut off should you view it in Outlook. That being said, we’ll do what we can to get better content “above the fold” and simplify things a bit.
   
2. “Way too much baby stuff!”
   You got something against babies? OK, as soon as we can code it, we hope to provide the functionality to enable you to edit your subscription “preferences”. Here you should be able to choose to receive baby related content or not.
   
3. “Keep the intros, you are funny.”
   Why thank you but I can’t take all the credit…sometimes I get a little help from a super high profile content creation team we have in house. Click here for a picture of our best staff writer at Design Public headquarters.
   
4. “The sidebar links are not working in Gmail.”
   We’re aware of it and working on it. I LOVE me some gmail but it does some voodoo stuff to our code. It’ll be fixed in the next iteration of our newsletters.
   
5. “We like food!”
   Well you didn’t unanimously say that. But when I asked what other newsletters you subscribed to an overwhelming number of readers said they subscribe to newsletters from the likes of epicurious, chowhound.com and other foodie related destinations. You like food. I like food. You like design. I like design. What’s the connection? I dunno, perhaps a Design Public recipes section? Or, maybe you can just come over for dinner sometime. Any allergies?
6. “More design tips and advice…”
   10-4 on that one. I’m pulling in some industry experts to give you the best advice around…stand by.
7. “Puppies!”
   Yes, puppies.

Once again thanks for the feedback on the newsletters. You’ve given us some great ideas and awesome new projects to work on. If you’d like to add anything else to the discussion just leave it in the comments field below.

-matty