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> It was not easy, partly because the software is not intuitive Damn right. You hear a product is good, you go out and get it, and then you try and use it.

> It was not easy, partly because the software is not intuitive Damn right. You hear a product is good, you go out and get it, and then you try and use it. Like always you hit a roadblock and you RTFM. But this time there isn't a manual, no dense text with an index of all the weird and wonderful functions you could master to be an expert. No this time you only get a string of badly written blog posts, verbose and out of date.

devilsavocado 10y ago
Reading that snapchat is not intuitive is always weird for me. It was the most immediately obvious and intuitive app I've ever used. Maybe you are thinking it is a lot more complex than it actually is? Take a picture then select who you send it to. Swipe left to see pictures sent to you. Swipe right to see pictures people have posted for everyone. That's 99% of it. There is no need for an index of functions that can be mastered as there only are a handful of functions.
- LukeShu 10y ago
  Things in Snapchat that aren't intuitive, off the top of my head: 1. Why are my snaps significantly blurrier than the pictures from the normal camera app? (a: you have to explicitly tap the main part of the screen to get it to focus, then take the snap. Why does it not focus automatically when taking the snap?) 2. Why does it do significantly worse in low-light than the normal camera app? (Is it just a problem with Snapchat, or do I need to manually do something that the machine should do, like in #1?) 3. What do the emojis next to names in the friends list mean? (I found a table with the meanings on some spammy website.) 4. What do the smileys that sometimes pop up in chat mean? 5. Why does the menu button not work like it does in every single other app? Sure, "swipe down, then tap the gear" isn't hard, but they removed the mechanism that I'm conditioned to expect to work.

devilsavocado 10y ago

Reading that snapchat is not intuitive is always weird for me. It was the most immediately obvious and intuitive app I've ever used. Maybe you are thinking it is a lot more complex than it actually is? Take a picture then select who you send it to. Swipe left to see pictures sent to you. Swipe right to see pictures people have posted for everyone. That's 99% of it. There is no need for an index of functions that can be mastered as there only are a handful of functions.

LukeShu 10y ago
Things in Snapchat that aren't intuitive, off the top of my head: 1. Why are my snaps significantly blurrier than the pictures from the normal camera app? (a: you have to explicitly tap the main part of the screen to get it to focus, then take the snap. Why does it not focus automatically when taking the snap?) 2. Why does it do significantly worse in low-light than the normal camera app? (Is it just a problem with Snapchat, or do I need to manually do something that the machine should do, like in #1?) 3. What do the emojis next to names in the friends list mean? (I found a table with the meanings on some spammy website.) 4. What do the smileys that sometimes pop up in chat mean? 5. Why does the menu button not work like it does in every single other app? Sure, "swipe down, then tap the gear" isn't hard, but they removed the mechanism that I'm conditioned to expect to work.