Interestingly, both my Facebook and Google Wave project have got problems on UI. The Facebook app "Campus Sale" has confusing titles for each function and the Google Wave app "Presenter" got the problem of being too simple that it confines the user too much (cannot draw before uploading something, though the user might just want to use it as a white board, for instance), as well as it does not provide the users with more information about the document processing progress( it takes quite a while to process the file on the server side, without necessary information, the user might think the connection is down or something).
We treat these user experience designs as unessential when we wrote the app. Think about it now we have done really silly things. Anyway it is the users that will use our app but not ourselves.
Fortunately we are paying much more attention on the UI and user-friendliness design for the final project and hopefully we could end up with an app that has decent ( or excellent:) ) UI and provides good user experience.
One sentence in conclusion, writing serious app is not like doing programming labs, usability is the first concern.
writing serious app is not like doing programming labs, usability is the first concern.
ReplyDeleteWell said. :-)