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Want a Site Review? We’ve Updated our Process!

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David Leggett

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February 2nd, 2009

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We’ve updated our website submission process for usability reviews.

Frequent viewers of UX Booth are probably well aware of a problem with our review process: It takes us quite a bit of time to get to each individual site submission.

We realize that this was a huge problem for the UX Booth, and are happy to announce a brand new site submission system and process today — a new process that is more exciting, and involves the entire UX community.

The New Site Submission Process

Starting today, the UX Booth will only be accepting site submissions four times a year, and only on specific dates. The next date to submit your site for a Usability Review is February 4th, 2009 (that’s this Wednesday, mark your calendars). That’s it. No really, you’ll only have 24 hours to submit your site for review, so you better be there.

From the submissions sent in on February 4th, the UX Panel will select ten sites we believe will benefit the entire UX community if reviewed. That number will then be narrowed down to 6 websites as chosen by you.

You read that correctly. The UX Booth community will now decide what sites we review.

We’ve detailed out the entire system on our new Site Submissions Page. In short, these are the days you should mark on your Calendar for the upcoming year:

• February 4th
• May 6th
• August 5th
• November 4th

What if I Already Submitted my Site?

We really appreciate your interest in the site usability reviews we offer here at the Booth. We actually had no idea that this service would be so insanely popular when we first launched UX Booth back in November. Here’s the problem though: Unless you submitted your site within the first few week or so of our launch, we probably won’t get to review your site for another few years.

The old process clearly won’t work the way anyone wants it to, and really lacks the communities involvement. It is for these reasons that we’ve had to wipe our slate clean and start back from square one. We promise that it’s going to be fun though.

What Now?

Visit our new Submissions page, and bookmark it. On Wednesday, February 4th, visit it again to submit your site. Afterwards, be sure to check back and vote on what site you’d like to be reviewed!