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Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased. As for Flickr: isn't it strange
by Tichy 15y ago
Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased.
As for Flickr: isn't it strange how the products with the worst user interfaces always seem to become the most popular? Same with Facebook.
- wgx 15y agoOr: they become popular despite, and then they're too scared to improve the UI for fear of change?
- macdonald 15y agoI don't agree with the interface comment. Facebook became popular in part because it had a much cleaner, more usable, interface than MySpace. I think the same is true of Flickr, though I'm not a heavy user. It's probably true that other, newer companies have created better interfaces since then, but I'd argue that they became popular because their interfaces were superior at the time.
- masklinn 15y ago> I think the same is true of Flickr, though I'm not a heavy user. Might have been true in the past, but I'll be damned if I don't just insta-close any flickr link I click by mistake these days. I just want to see a picture and half the time I get these two dots swirling around for what seems like half an hour, until it leads me to a half-broken interface with a tiny dot of a picture. Not worth it.
- ugh 15y agoBoth Flickr and Facebook had awesome interfaces when they first became popular. They just didn’t change enough or went in the wrong direction afterwards.
- tmcw 15y agoMuch the same with Google Plus. It takes serious effort for growth and the infinite strength of 'user needs' not to clobber a good interface with lots of cruft that most users don't want.
- Maro 15y agoI think the Flickr UX is pretty good, but I've only been a user for a couple of months. So maybe the problem is that the Flickr UX can't grow with the user/photographer?