Comments on: Design Thinking: Revealing the User Experience http://www.taptu.com/blog/2008/04/17/design-thinking-revealing-the-user-experience/ Taptu is a search engine for your mobile phone. Starting with music and fact-finding, we offer tons of snippets to help you find what you need quickly on your mobile. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Skydeck : Carnival of the Mobilists 120 http://www.taptu.com/blog/2008/04/17/design-thinking-revealing-the-user-experience/#comment-8175 Skydeck : Carnival of the Mobilists 120 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/?p=287#comment-8175 [...] Davies from Taptu reveals in an article titled Design Thinking, the best practices for revealing the features of your site or service to new users. Learn about [...] […] Davies from Taptu reveals in an article titled Design Thinking, the best practices for revealing the features of your site or service to new users. Learn about […]

]]> By: Ian http://www.taptu.com/blog/2008/04/17/design-thinking-revealing-the-user-experience/#comment-7979 Ian Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:47:31 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/?p=287#comment-7979 :-) Anyway, for me at the moment, Facebook is a good example of such an application, if you can call it that. Although it's real use has yet to be proven to me (really, what exactly is social networking?). When I first started using it, all was well. I liked it compared to MySpace, which allowed people who had no idea about web page design far too much control over their sites, and ultimately their page would take ages to load, or the colour schemes were just hell on the eyes. Facebook offered a simple interface, it was quick and easy to use and had some useful features. Now, whilst the look and feel of the site has remained consistent, these applications that people can add and regularly do add to their profiles has just gone too far. The same people who created a horrible MySpace page can now clog their Facebook profile with so many useless applications, that loading it can take minutes rather than seconds. So basically Facebook used to do it well, and then went down the evil path of MySpace. :-)

Anyway, for me at the moment, Facebook is a good example of such an application, if you can call it that. Although it’s real use has yet to be proven to me (really, what exactly is social networking?).

When I first started using it, all was well. I liked it compared to MySpace, which allowed people who had no idea about web page design far too much control over their sites, and ultimately their page would take ages to load, or the colour schemes were just hell on the eyes. Facebook offered a simple interface, it was quick and easy to use and had some useful features. Now, whilst the look and feel of the site has remained consistent, these applications that people can add and regularly do add to their profiles has just gone too far. The same people who created a horrible MySpace page can now clog their Facebook profile with so many useless applications, that loading it can take minutes rather than seconds.

So basically Facebook used to do it well, and then went down the evil path of MySpace.

]]> By: Vero http://www.taptu.com/blog/2008/04/17/design-thinking-revealing-the-user-experience/#comment-7970 Vero Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:37:05 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/?p=287#comment-7970 Thanks for pointing it out Ian :) We've just moved to WordPress 2.5 and a few little bits and bobs hadn't been completely moved over. Woops! All fixed now though, cheers! Vero Thanks for pointing it out Ian :)

We’ve just moved to WordPress 2.5 and a few little bits and bobs hadn’t been completely moved over. Woops!

All fixed now though, cheers!
Vero

]]> By: Ian http://www.taptu.com/blog/2008/04/17/design-thinking-revealing-the-user-experience/#comment-7945 Ian Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:18:36 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/?p=287#comment-7945 I'd just like to point out that the image for Kathy Sierra's Featuritis Curve is returning a 404. Tut tut ;-) I’d just like to point out that the image for Kathy Sierra’s Featuritis Curve is returning a 404.

Tut tut ;-)

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