thinkvitamin.com— Designers look at a bunch of web apps and decide what does/doesn't work when it comes to getting people to sign up.
Aug 31, 2006View in Crawl 4
Designers typically have a .. glorious .. opinion of themselves and the 1% role they play in any serious website or application.They're experts on usability and human behaviour now too ... I guess they just want to feel involved after they've emailed the psd's.
@r2d7You're absolutely right. Any serious web app would do much better with a simple plain HTML layout. What's the use for an interface anyway? And if it's really really necessary, just leave it to the techies to make it aesthetically pleasant and compelling enough to get people who will never even use the product tempted to sign up and spread the word. That's what they're really good at. Since they were the ones who did ALL the REAL work and actually KNOW how the product works from the inside out (since they were the ones who actually built it, thus making them superior), noone could be any fitter for the job.Just out of curiosity, if you were to launch a web app, how would you turn your visitors into users? Would you print (or echo) on the front page a thorough description of how the system works, detailed changelogs and all?
sometimes designers argue usability,accessibility and some even do take test users and survey their reaction to the design ... but some are adamant on the exact # 232534 they comped up .. the latter are mind boggling... the former i respect/ developer
Closed AccountSep 1, 2006
Designers typically have a .. glorious .. opinion of themselves and the 1% role they play in any serious website or application.They're experts on usability and human behaviour now too ... I guess they just want to feel involved after they've emailed the psd's.
terrenceshawSep 1, 2006
I like that they laid out different designs to compare and contract them.
Closed AccountSep 1, 2006
"The same happened to applications 5 years back."yup
resplenceSep 1, 2006
@r2d7You're absolutely right. Any serious web app would do much better with a simple plain HTML layout. What's the use for an interface anyway? And if it's really really necessary, just leave it to the techies to make it aesthetically pleasant and compelling enough to get people who will never even use the product tempted to sign up and spread the word. That's what they're really good at. Since they were the ones who did ALL the REAL work and actually KNOW how the product works from the inside out (since they were the ones who actually built it, thus making them superior), noone could be any fitter for the job.Just out of curiosity, if you were to launch a web app, how would you turn your visitors into users? Would you print (or echo) on the front page a thorough description of how the system works, detailed changelogs and all?
poohneatSep 1, 2006
sometimes designers argue usability,accessibility and some even do take test users and survey their reaction to the design ... but some are adamant on the exact # 232534 they comped up .. the latter are mind boggling... the former i respect/ developer