Friday, December 16, 2011

Don't fix what's not broken

Programs and websites are always trying to find the sweet spot between functionality and design, have those two things balanced. Now what sucks is having both of them close to perfection but changing it, like YouTube. YouTube new home page design is crap! How do you go from easy to use to hard. Yes it wasn't the prettiest design but the functionality was good. Functionality beats pretty any day.

The best program are self explanatory and use common sense. If a site needs a tutorial on how to use it, it's on the wrong path. WHY!?

Is it because they want their programmers to get busy like fast food restaurants make employers clean something that was already cleaned 1o minutes ago just for the the sake of being busy.

I understand change can have negative effect and it's necessary but when it jeopardizes usability. Someone needs to rethink their strategy, don't fix what's not broken.

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