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Instagram's UX Problems
- currysausage 14y agoRight now, the UX problem I am faced with is the sheer non-readability of your blog. First, I trust the fonts look beautiful on a Mac, and it certainly is not your fault that font rendering on Windows sucks big time, but unless you want to lock out a rather large share of potential visitors, you should really test your design on a Windows machine. Your fonts are simply unreadable on Win7/Chrome. Second, light gray text on salmon background? Seriously? That is virtually zero contrast!
- jakeculp 14y agoI just recently converted from Windows to Mac and when on Windows the fonts looked fine.
- kzasada 14y agoAnother one: if I know someone's user name I can't add them through the "Find & Invite Friends" page under options, I can only do it through the explore page. Also, the forced cropping of pictures taken outside of the app is by far the most annoying UX thing from my perspective.
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- newobj 14y ago"people taking pictures of their weed and their 18 children with their baby daddies" ...
- jakeculp 14y agoIt's a joke, take it or leave it.
- idan 14y agoWhile these are certainly improvements that Instagram could make to improve their app, this article is more attitude than helpful critique. Absent the cruft, there is little substance here. Unworthy of HN, IMO.
- jakeculp 14y agoWell, its on here, I guess you can just choose to ignore it then.
- omonra 14y agoI actually don't get one point that I hear often and that's made in this article. Namely that Instagram used to have higher quality of photos. And now that it's more popular, the quality has gone down. But what does it matter to YOU, what the average user is putting up? I have a list of people that I follow - who I consider good or am interested in. The fact that there is a million or billion other users snapping ugly photographs is irrelevant. Would you judge a photo-lab based on the service they offer or how good the photos of their other users are?
- jakeculp 14y agoMy criticism of their user base was not suppose to be a given point in my argument and so most of that statement dealt with personal details instead of things that would effect others as well.
- omonra 14y agoRight - I understand that this was a tangential point. But I just see it brought up consistently (that Instagram is getting worse because of decreasing average photo quality) - which I don't get.