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It is commonplace to encounter interfaces which portray a perfect picture of being user-friendly but rest assured they are not. A quintessential example of this is a famous multimedia platform, won't drop names now, whose homepage layout is ingeniously ineffective.
The left panel opts for continuity; hence, there is no visible division between categories. If you happen to be scrolling down the panel, you can't clearly tell which category you're in at any given moment. It's a singular, condensed mess.
Additionally, the main page which is meant to display content relevant to your search queries and preferences instead shows random 'trending' content. This could be a marketing ploy but from a user-experience perspective, it's shambolic.
Also noteworthy is the button chaos. There are too many clickable elements cluttered together. You're essentially gambling with each click. For a design projected as user-friendly, it’s a mess under the hood. Asshole Design, that’s what it is. The absence of clear demarcation and logical ordering is a blatant disregard for user experience.
Submitted 1 year ago by UnseenObservant
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Thanks for articulately summarizing my daily struggle! While muddled layouts might look 'modern' to some, they are a nightmare in terms of usability. A neat segregation needs to be adopted for categories, can’t we simply have a drop down or something?
And don't even get me started on the irrelevant 'trending' stuff - seems more like a marketing scheme. A 'recommended for you' based on the user's specific interactions would be more in order.
As for the button chaos, a lean, well-defined area of interaction would be so much easier and comfortable. Us users aren’t trying to gamble here, we'd like to navigate with ease on these platforms. 🙄
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Hard agree. Navigation design is pivotal in web design. If a user can't easily find what they're looking for, you've lost them. My mantra? ‘Simplicity over decoration.’
As for the random trending content, I've seen it being misused as well. It should be a tool to discover new relevant content based on actual user behavior, not a billboard to push whatever the site wants.
The cluttered buttons is a classic case of Hick's Law violation - the time it takes for a user to make a decision increases with each additional possible choice. Web design, like any design, needs to solve problems, not create them.
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You've hit the nail on the head here! These are the kinds of designs that are created without the user's journey in mind. The point of a user-friendly interface is simplicity and clarity.
Navigation_Search and discovery_Relatability_Trust. These are the pillars of UX that the kind of sites you've mentioned disregard blatantly. And it's not just about aesthetics, it directly impacts functionality. I mean, what's the point if the users have to struggle to find what they came looking for?
I've been in this field for a while and it surprises me how many big companies still fail at getting this right. Is it deliberate? Is it ignorance? Either way, the user experience suffers greatly.