Just a random experience report—I’ve been using the website for my monthly donations for about half a year now, and think it’s great. The process is so easy and friction-less that donating is something I’m always looking forward to as opposed to it feeling like an obligation I need to get through with, which basically had been my feeling about it beforehand. The website’s great UX really makes a huge difference.
Also it’s a great and easy page to point people to that sympathize with the idea of effective giving but don’t really know what the next steps would be. Which isn’t surprising as I guess that’s partly the reason the project exists in the first place.
Random thought—I’ve seen many EAs apply stickers (e.g. GiveWell) to their phones or laptops, which I guess is a very cheap tool that may lead to a couple of conversations (and an expected >0 “conversions”) about EA or the respective org in particular. I’d assume that at least marginally such stickers are pretty effective little things, but it may depend on how difficult it is to set up and distribute such a product. So it may certainly not be on top of your backlog if anything, but have you put any thought into such ideas? Maybe something like this would be a good opportunity for a volunteer, as I imagine it would require very little coordination initially.
Just a random experience report—I’ve been using the website for my monthly donations for about half a year now, and think it’s great. The process is so easy and friction-less that donating is something I’m always looking forward to as opposed to it feeling like an obligation I need to get through with, which basically had been my feeling about it beforehand. The website’s great UX really makes a huge difference.
Also it’s a great and easy page to point people to that sympathize with the idea of effective giving but don’t really know what the next steps would be. Which isn’t surprising as I guess that’s partly the reason the project exists in the first place.
Random thought—I’ve seen many EAs apply stickers (e.g. GiveWell) to their phones or laptops, which I guess is a very cheap tool that may lead to a couple of conversations (and an expected >0 “conversions”) about EA or the respective org in particular. I’d assume that at least marginally such stickers are pretty effective little things, but it may depend on how difficult it is to set up and distribute such a product. So it may certainly not be on top of your backlog if anything, but have you put any thought into such ideas? Maybe something like this would be a good opportunity for a volunteer, as I imagine it would require very little coordination initially.