To lower the barriers to providing feedback, here are the assets in a table:

Testing in action, love to see it!.
Perfect example of what I just mentioned in my SN post about early iterations 👏

Landing Page

• Prefer A but I would collapse the height and do away with 'the fold'. They by device. Encourage people to scroll by showing more of the content below.
• There is plenty of space too for suggested / popular / trending searches - to reduce the amount of thinking people need to do to get started.
• Might prefer B if it was a simple coloured background and was shorter in height. But CTA for searching is far less visible and likely to perform worse.

Explore

• Prefer B but the caption text on each card is perhaps too wide to read and the content is somewhat merged together. Would prefer to see these as cards, with multiple lines of body text that aren't full width.
• Search relevancy % - to know how close to my target topic the result is.
• And perhaps show 'top', 'trending' or 'recommended', keyword or author tags to again make it a more easy decision to choose favoured or popular content.

Benefits

• Prefer B because the cards should almost always be lighter than the background.
• Love the colour transition but you may need something in the hero area to make sure people find the content below it.
• There should also be one BIG CTA on this screen. Not seeing what action I'm supposed to be taking.

Footer

• Like the style. I would choose one CTA and stick with it. Not clear whether I should give feedback or give my email.

Search Bar

• Looks great! Are each of the tags coloured? Is it clear enough I can deselect one (there's no x icon)?

Search Page

• Looks & feels familiar. Nothing significant to change. Just might want to include imagery from from each piece of content and to somehow link articles together if they are of the same topic / theme.

Overall

• Great job on the design. Looks like a super useful tool.
• Consider the customer who is using this page. They are bitcoiners and likely care a bit about their privacy. Might be useful to share information that not tracking anything.
• They might also want to join trending topics & discussions, rather than reviewing stale content, so this would be a useful addition.

Above the scroll

• I prefer version A because it's simple and I think AI art used in B is already dated

Explore section/ page

• I prefer version Neither because each has a bunch of irrelevant metadata. Metadata is useful when I'm comparing several similar things, but when I'm "exploring" I'm looking for something interesting not comparing their merits like I do when searching.

Benefits section

• I prefer version B because I ignore anything in those square, stock marketing cards

Elements:

• Footer:
  • One thing i like/ dislike about the footer is... I like that everything is distinct and as expected and you're encouraging aliases ... I don't dislike anything
• Searchbar dropdown
  • One thing i like/ dislike about the dropdown is... I like that it shows me all my search options ... I don't dislike anything

Search page

• One thing i like/dislike about the search page is... I like that it makes me feel in control of what I'm seeing ... I dislike that it feels busy like it's struggling with visual priority

Overall:

• My favorite part of what I saw was... the dropdown
• One thing I hope you change this one thing in the final product: some of the copy, e.g. "search the depths of bitcoin's technical ecosystem" sounds like cliched marketing language

Landing Page

• I align more with version A because (1) it's clean and simple and therefore ensures users focus on just the search bar which is their primary reason for being there. (2) It is very similar in design layout (jakob’s law) to the most popular search engine (Google) so user can easily relate it to a search engine and therefore reduce the amount of thinking they need to get started
• One thing I’d add (if it isn't in the product roadmap already) is to include an Image and voice search option for accessibility and inclusivity.
• I’d also add commonly searched terms like “Bitcoin white paper” also to reduce thinking time.

Explore Page

• I align more with version B because the white background gives it a cool look (doesn't make it overwhelming) and it has a very good contrast (accessibility).
• I think for a good user experience, a filter chip should be added so users can easily navigate contents or search results they want to see.
• Also, I think it will be nicer and easier for users to read if the contents of the cards are broken such that we have three cards arranged horizontally with each containing a header, short introduction of not more than two lines of text, category, date&time, duration and if possible an image as this as proven to help you communicate your message more effectively and quickly, as well as make your card more memorable and clickable.
• I also think the ‘explore more’ button should be more prominent.

Benefits

• I align more with version B because the benefits are made to be more elaborate and therefore difficult to ignore. It's important users see them so that's a good choice.
• Also the use of images communicates this benefits more and makes them easy to understand to the users.
• For the hero section, personally for the sake of contrast, accessibility, playing it safe and doing less because less is more; I’d stick to using the primary color for important elements like my buttons in the designs. ( this is only because orange is a difficult color to use in design)
• Also, there is no call-to-action for users to carry out.

Footer

• Footer looks simple and nice, although having two CTAs can be confusing for users so I will suggest having a section just before the footer where users can be encouraged to join the newsletter by providing their email and then in the footer section, users have the just ‘Give feedback’ CTA. That way the footer is made even more clean and simple

Search Bar

• The search bar looks cool. The addition of suggested keywords is a very good user experience as it makes it easy for users to get started without thinking much. Only thing to add if not in the roadmap already is the option to search by either image or voice for accessibility and inclusivity.

Search Page (Filter & No filter)

• The search is very good to go. The only thing I might suggest to be added is for users to have the option to change the filter orientation from vertical to horizontal and then maybe also change the lay-outing of the cards.

Overall

• Intuitive designs. I love the idea and the designs are superb. Although I would stick to using the primary colors for important elements of the designs. My favorite has to be the search page because it’s clean and simple and I understand how much work went into achieving that.

Thanks for sharing. Keep it clean and simple! Great start!

Great searching engine! For Landing page above the scroll I prefer version A, while for explore section I prefer version B.

Landing page: A, less is more

Interesting search engine, nice work.

Wow! Congrats on putting this together! Such a great way to gather user feedback.

It could have fit perfectly within ~design ;) Maybe next time?

You're also welcome to not follow the template and share whatever stands out!