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>If we naively squish the curve, as if by pressing down with a finger, we end up with a bimodal distribution, where the task is now easy for one group of users
by epalmer 11y ago
>If we naively squish the curve, as if by pressing down with a finger, we end up with a bimodal distribution, where the task is now easy for one group of users and impossible for another. This is not an improvement.
This resonates with me. Sadly I think this happens more often.
- jacobush 11y agoDarn, I feel this way often - I guess this makes me an old curmudgeon but I find Spotify on mobile, and Snapchat, and many other apps, very confusing and hard to use.
- mkane848 11y agoIn your defense, the Spotify app is a mess and it seems like they're adjusting their own UI enough to suggest that they don't quite have usability down quite yet. Don't get me started on how often it hangs or crashes, or how the timing is eerily close to when it tries to transition into/out of ads... Snapchat just has a bad habit of introducing a feature you need to perform a gesture for and only telling you once and nowhere else. I wouldn't blame your age on it, I just don't think a lot of these popular apps have particularly good design but get by because the service is solid and hits "good enough" for your average (usually non-technical) user.