Too harsh to be true

It has been disturbing me for several days – I don’t want to sound pathetic but here’s the fatal truth:

I don’t think I will be a professional product manager. Well, only for this period, I guess.

Although the position and the relevant work seem so attractive to so many people, where I can see some of my peers enjoying what they are doing, I cannot truly treat the tasks with only the good considerations. From my recent thinking, I believe it has something to do with my way of getting things done, which is a not-fixed way, often comes with abstract imagination and lots of creative stuff. Therefore, I am struggling in every assignment because even a small bug made me feel like a failure and I had to go through it over and over again. Later, it became a cycle where I often hesitated to do things because of the fear of encountering problems. And guess what? This led to another problem – procrastination.

Okay, enough for the bluffing time. Let’s move on to the critical part.

Back to my website, the original purpose was to build a specialized platform where young filmmakers can find accurate information related to film festivals easily and can share the space within interacting with their peers or professionals that can teach them not only skills but also a way of thinking that they can apply to their actual experiences. These didn’t come from nowhere, instead, they serve as the fundamental pinpoints, consistent with what the previous interviewees reported: lack of useful information resources, having difficulty to expand their social circle aka work partners in producing a film, and don’t know whether to find interesting activities related to film appreciation or just simple discussion.

Based on the needs, I further developed the low-fidelity prototype (as required in Assignment 4). I must admit that by the time I was doing all the things by Figma, I had a little happy time, but I never expected the sudden shift when I turned to website building this time. There is a huge gap between what I imagined and what I did – sometimes for the desired functions, I really don’t know how to activate it, therefore, I got to give it up.

Then I came to the usability test. The five tasks are listed as follows:
1. Click to find the recent/particular film festivals that you can/want to participate in.
2. Check on the community where you can view content posted by others.
3. Find to apply for a volunteer or formal job position.
4. Subscribe to receive weekly news feed.
5. Register to become an actual member.

In order to optimize the monetization plan, I added one more element, that is: would you pay to become a member of this website?
This responds to what Professor has pointed out in my previous attempts; therefore, I would know what the participants have considered about the monetization and whether I should upgrade it to a persuasive version.

As for the A/B test, I designed my website to be tested in terms of whether by revealing more benefits on the registration page would appear to be more attractive that can lead more users to sign up. The change is to show the beneficial features close the sign-up page, which is obvious.

The original version: The benefit information of becoming a member is not available until the user clicks the “know more”button (second-level).
Variant 1 version: The benefit information of becoming a member is available and near to the “sign-up” button (first-level).

You can visit my website here.