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But what about the products that are used by everyone? In case you want to design something like this you should not apply the suggestions above, right? | But what about the products that are used by everyone? In case you want to design something like this you should not apply the suggestions above, right? | ||
Well, when I think about products for everybody I think of facebook for example. It has a vast number of users so this is enough "everybody" for a beginning interaction designer I think. Though strangely, Facebook started with a very restricted target group: Students of the Harvard University. Slowly and controlled it was opened to more people. First Students of other elite US universities ("Ivy League"). Than all other US universities. Than Highschool students, employees of several big companys and finally it was open for everybody. I don't want to put them on a pedestal for great interaction design. I just want to illustrate that they are successful and did not " | Well, when I think about products for everybody I think of facebook for example. It has a vast number of users so this is enough "everybody" for a beginning interaction designer I think. Though strangely, Facebook started with a very restricted target group: Students of the Harvard University. Slowly and controlled it was opened to more people. First Students of other elite US universities ("Ivy League"). Than all other US universities. Than Highschool students, employees of several big companys and finally it was open for everybody. I don't want to put them on a pedestal for great interaction design. I just want to illustrate that they are successful and did not "design for everybody". (though I have to say that restricting the group of users to remain "excusive" was probably a strong motivation for this kind of behaviour too) | ||
What this illustrates as well is that it is always easier to add features. Removing them if you note that they don't help you is very hard. You can do so but nobody likes it. What if a function that you particularly use would disappears after an upgrade of your favourite software? People suffer incredibly if you take something away, even if the most of them would be better of it what they had would have never existing anyway. Strange, but that's the way it is. | What this illustrates as well is that it is always easier to add features. Removing them if you note that they don't help you is very hard. You can do so but nobody likes it. What if a function that you particularly use would disappears after an upgrade of your favourite software? People suffer incredibly if you take something away, even if the most of them would be better of it what they had would have never existing anyway. Strange, but that's the way it is. | ||