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usability issues in flickr / jon crel
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | An illustration of why the new design is flawed from a basic usability point of view.1) Presenting on a black screen may be quite a nice way to view a photograph, but then why have the system/flickr menu (which is irrelevant to the photograph) and a second copy of the buddy icon.2) All the picture useful items are now crammed into one menu, not even labelled (except with ... ) on the bottom right of the screen. To be honest this is an understandable interface design in mobile interfaces, but it makes no sense here where most of the screen is wasted anyway.3) The metadata, comments, labels etc. are most useful if seen WITH the photograph, not on a separate scrolled part of the page. Basically this one decision makes flickr just another picture website. You already had a scrolling slide show, which was not very useful, now you have made the whole interface into something that isnt very useful. 4) Basically the POINT of flickr is the metadata, tagging, sets, groups etc. Now you have focussed on the image to the exclusion of everything else. Its a bit like someones idea of a website in the early nineties...I have used flickr a lot in my teaching, but these changes make the site considerably less useful... Basic Usability Design: (a) know your users (and that they are not all the same) (b) know what your users want to do (and realise that different users want to do different things) (c) think of the context in which a computer system is used. Basically you have lost the basic values that made Flickr successful. The changes make it harder to do many of things that many of your users want to do. Also the over busy design simply distracts for some of the beautiful photographs. The basic idea of sharing sites is that they are as UNINTRUSIVE as possible, but still provide a lot of organisational structure, which allows users to generate semantic structures. Your redesign has in effect downgraded the organisation, and made the corporate Flickr stuff very intrusive. Its the content that users put in that makes the value of sites like Flickr, and what you have done is almost like a company telling its shareholders that it doesn't want their investment. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-05-21 19:12:30 |
| 撮影者 | jon crel |
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