StartupBritain – A Twitter Summary with UI no no’s

Startup Britain what went right and what went wrong

I think the Design Industry didn’t like the fact it was not represented and it led to them picking holes in the design, brand and affected the social aspects of the website, the second set of people appeared to heckle the idea of discounts to startups.

Startup Britain was well intentioned, but I feel it may of been advertised and branded in the wrong way and so those taking part in startup Britain may of felt a little cheated

Startup Britain has faced fierce competition to its what twitter users are putting down in their droves; mostly by mocking one liners, others about content and thirdly the startup market noticing technical errors.

Some have mocked david Cameron for having a “levitating head” on the website, others asked that the default person should be a women not a political figure. Here is a picture of the offending head.

The main offending concept was the UK government has recommended a US site to design websites, the UK goverment did not recommend a  UK design company, not surprisingly the design community decided to pick out flaws with the website; below is some  feedback with details of what they are talking about.

1977Design 1977 Design Oh dear. #startupbritain with a crowdsourced ‘logo’. How not to support the UK creative industry. http://bit.ly/gLtt6m via @CreativeReview
The goverments good intention has been met with interesting feedback..

Maylor Phil Maylor And then there’s the ‘iStockphoto’ watermarked image used on one of the #StartupBritain banner downloads. Isn’t that illegal…?

Finally for the holy trilogy unfortunately a spelling mistake was found

Further feedback from the Twittersphere

CrownGallery Crown Gallery #startupbritain if only I’d known how easy it was to start a business before I went to all that bother! Thanks for the advice, Dave

eebandoni: #startupbritain Anyone feel this site is a Public/Private lead generation site? This is Blackhat Marketing Government Style

fnafilms: RT @moongolfer: i was thinking of launching a new startup but couldn’t think of a good logo. can anyone help? #startupbritain

davecoveney: Can’t believe that #startupbritain puts a ‘create a logo’ as a number 4 top tip. Your logo is rarely important. What you do is biggest.

jackdaw100: #startupbritain camerons sweatshop britain

taxiroute: RT @donovanhide: #startupbritain As far as I can tell it’s an affiliate-based website. Is the government getting a commission on the sal …

biz_works: RT @shaawasmund: Childcare is a real issue for new mums preventing them from setting up their own businesses’ #startupbritain

infact….

the good thing so far is… tax benefits for mums creating their own startup..

charlesarthur Charles Arthur RT @qwghlm: Holy ****, just discovered an appalling security flaw in the #startupbritain site to boot. Not saying here. But, ****ing hell

TgirlAmy Amy Looking at the #startupbritain website, I honestly don’t think any of the “offers” are even worth having. Silly discounts on silly products.

FreerangeArtist Hannah Stewart Can someone remind me what the point of #StartupBritain is?How many high growth successful businesses have been started by a self help kit?!

tomroyal Tom Royal This #startupbritain thing is a joke, right? Why else would decapitated Dave be floating in the clouds? http://yfrog.com/h2lxfyuj

andybritcliffe Andy Britcliffe Very much so RT @Nero: #StartupBritain consensus seems to be ‘too many celebrities, not enough substance’…

AnikoZagon aniko zagon StartUp Britain launched today. Great idea so far limited resources… #startupbritain

Craig_McKenna Craig McKenna I am hoping the good stuff behind #startupBritain doesnt get lost in the mass of negative feedback

K8Media Ric Bottomley #startupbritain ”About us” page links to front page – this is a joke, right?

LINGsCARS Ling Valentine RT @andymantell: Any reason why David Cameron is levitating amongst the clouds #startupbritain website? > They used 99designs for it, fools

Demontrout Simon Davies And who thought it’d be a good idea to stick Cameron looking constipated on the home page? http://bit.ly/hImGnA #startupbritain

digitaltoast digitaltoast @ @charlesarthur @gwghlm I’m amazed you even got #startupbritain to load. It’s been down here all morning even though “downfor…” says up

leebandoni leebandoni @Nick_Clegg Since your going for a rebrand how about you use this guy. http://bit.ly/dRFvkQ $4 : Got the idea from #startupbritain