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Facebook and good UX? Ha! Good one. I'm a UX designer and Facebook baffles me. Maybe I'm a bit too old or I don't use it enough, but I find it so unintuitive -
by mattkevan 10y ago
Facebook and good UX? Ha! Good one.
I'm a UX designer and Facebook baffles me. Maybe I'm a bit too old or I don't use it enough, but I find it so unintuitive - there's all kinds of options, corners and dead ends where things may or may not be hidden. And then once I've found something, getting back there again is almost impossible.
It just doesn't lend itself to a consistent mental model.
- wtf_is_frp 10y agowhat site is a great example of good UX?
- mattkevan 10y agoOne of my go-to examples is http://www.gov.uk http://www.gov.uk. Obviously a very different site to Facebook, but the way it combines the content from hundreds of individual sites while still making it easy to navigate is impressive. To be fair, Facebook's UX is always going to be a bit of a nightmare just due to the sheer volume of disparate features stuffed in - the 'iTunes effect' as I've just called it - so the move to focused apps for specific features is probably a good thing. To be not so fair, I get the suspicion that the UX is left deliberately confusing in places, especially the constant rearranging of privacy settings, to get people to share more than they would otherwise.
- virtualwhys 10y agoI know it's text based but still, the gov.uk is blazing fast. Looked under the hood, seems like they're using client-side template rendering via Mustache, and JQuery. Not sure what the back end is written in, saw a reference to Flask in a javascript comment, so maybe Python.
- Mendenhall 10y agoI do the same and have the exact same thoughts about corners dead ends etc. I also cant seem to find the "consistent mental model" seems very scattered.