What are products you use frequently but still hate/they suck? What are products you use frequently but think they could be done better?
The results don't suck. They're awesome.
However, the insane number of combinations of flags, the fact order of flags can change things, and the "defaults aren't best" are all issues that make it a true pain to use.
... Yet the GUIs and wrappers that exist to make it friendlier inevitably either make it slower (Handbrake's thread limitations) or don't support about half of the filters it can provide.
For something you can actually do more with?
Well, I guess every A/B testing program I have to use would count there. Both VWO and Adobe Target have their strengths, but it definitely seems like they were designed by people for whom good UI and UX design was not a strong point. Target has a confusing interface with buttons that say save not actually saving the content and rather limited targeting rules, whereas VWO seems to think no one should be able to edit projects associated with multiple subaccounts at once, or that anyone using the code view shouldn't be able to upload new images.
It'd be nice to see one of these tools designed by a company/individual who knows how to design something worth a damn.
Could you give me some more details about the different pain points you have with these softwares? Where you see an opportunity to do things differently etc.
Thanks in advance!
For example, in both VWO and Target you're basically encouraged to put the test live before you're given the option to preview it in a web browser. The process only gives you the chance to save a draft and preview after you've set up the goals and been encouraged to put it live.
How I'd do it on the other hand is that the system would create a draft test as you start building it, and the editor window would have an option to preview it in a browser, which would do the same thing as the preview option for 'saved' tests. That way, people can browser test as they go along.
Images would work more like the WordPress media gallery, with a button accessible in both versions of the editor to select them there, plus the same option coming up if you choose to edit an image in the visual one. This would let people add/update images in the code only mode, plus make it much easier to find existing uploads, since VWO doesn't give you any way to see what media you've uploaded before.
(Target doesn't even seem to let you upload new images to their servers at all, which is kinda ridiculous)
Making the UI consistent in other places would be useful here too. For instance, both the rules for running the test and the audience segmentation use a very similar interface (with a dropdown menu and options for browsers, IP addresses, device types, etc) but the former has options the latter doesn't, like going by cookie values or JavaScript variables. These look the same, and the rules available to filter by should be the same.
I also feel such a piece of software needs to be able to know what's on the page/in the DOM and run/segment audiences based on that too. Because at the moment, if certain pages don't have a certain URL structure/cookie value/window variable, we can't limit the test to those pages (on either VWO or Target).
However, in some cases, they may have an element with a certain ID or class present instead. So we should be able to have the platform check for that, and run the test/segment results based on whether a certain element exists in the DOM. Same with the actual content of an element too; we should be able to run a test only if say, the h1 tag has a certain word in it.
The whole 'only one subaccount at once' and 'editor/preview window is tired to the main one' suck to deal with too. That's because at the moment, if I have two sites on VWO and want to compare a test across them, it flat out doesn't allow that. But this makes no sense. The subaccounts shouldn't be completely firewalled for those with the right permissions here, they should only be separate for those who only have access to one or the other. It should be like a forum permissions setup, where say the owners of Google.com and Microsoft.com can only access tests on their domain, but a marketing team working with both can compare them without having to use multiple browser sessions.
And the window thing... well that needs to stop existing at all. At present, closing the test window/tab will also close any separate windows/tabs associated with said test, at least in VWO.
They should just stay open as you'd expect them to.
So yeah, that should give you a bit more detail here. However, I'll probably write a whole article on the matter later too, complete with pictures and videos showing the issues from a user perspective, since both VWO and Target are pretty much UX/usability trainwrecks that need real designs teams like the ones used for Slack/Apple/Netflix/whatever.
A while back I was looking for something that would index my external hard drives so I could browse them and view file metadata. None of the options seemed appealing.
I really want a personal, locally-hosted wiki that lets me write in Markdown, keep revision history, link between documents, and attach files. Having inline-executable code like Jupyter would be cool also. I've bought a few versions of VoodooPad only to be disappointed by how basic it is.
I dont like how self host is not an option but its very clean, supports markdown, has an awesome interface as a personal wiki, and the free tier has plenty of space.
They keep moving the buttons and the UI every once in a while, hiding message requests in some new place every once in a while. They never talk about the changes and the Messenger Web app is slow to load and often has UI bugs.
It's wildly slow going from one mail to another, but I still gravitate towards it because I don't want to install an actual app.
Plus it's the only Mac app that loads it's main window instead of your draft letter when clicking on app icon.
Oh and no cmd+(+/-) for zoom while composing emails.
And it occasionally opens while I watch YouTube in full screen
So frustrating that something as fundamental as user login is botched up by a major software company.
I should switch to Google Music but that doesn't work with my Echo very well.
The state of online music sucks.
There's only two streaming services left that let you do that: Apple and Google. And I'm not letting Apple anywhere near my music collection after what that iTunes Match bug did to my mp3s.
That leaves Google. So now I'll have to upload my music to yet another service until they too decide not to allow uploads anymore and then I'm screwed.
Why do I hate it?
The remote has hardcoded buttons that went to the highest bidder.
Half the home screen is an ad and even the screensaver has an ad.
3,500+ variations of menus and multiple ways to accomplish the same thing via combinations of push-button and turn-knobs. This is becoming such a nonsense.
I ended up using my phone as GPS device and ignoring BMW anything-navigation wise.
While mechanically almost perfect car - my next car is going to be another brand just because of this bad design decisions.
2. BMW steering wheel. With weird bulges on sides and no space to rest the hand at it's lowest point.
I use it as a blog that targets people who live in my geographical area and are likely to know me.
It's full of problems. It ruthlessly violates privacy, it's slow and a memory hog. It's designed to be addictive. It rewards and spreads unpopular opinion.
But the privacy thing is the worst. If there was a duckduckgo version of Facebook, that would be great.
It would be more meaningful to get a list of the two or three things that don't suck.
Bananas. LEDs. Maybe cats, on a good day.
Not the fault of the LEDs themselves I guess.
* Sharing photos is super difficult, much more so than it should be.
* We have multiple devices spread across multiple family members and its not clear what belongs to whom.
* Pricing seems to be a bit out of line: 3/month for 200GB; 10/month for 2TB.You can’t just instantly share an existing photo album, you have to select the contents of the album, then share it to a shared album. Even worse is that the photos will then have a copy uploaded into the shared album, even if the album was already on iCloud Photo Library.
The Kindle touch UI. I want everything about the Kindle, except I want physical buttons to turn pages.
I got one recently and think it's a great design.
Sucks, but for me the alternatives suck even more.
Have you tried 1Password?
Bound to by company or cost of switching: Jira, Conflunece, Exchange/Outlook, Windows.
- migrating content
- marketing just now grasped or bothered to use confluence
- product thinks auto-linking stories are the shit
Only me and the devs are in agony when yet another nested list from markdown just won't migrate nicely to confluence (let alone back).
Probably all of them could be improved
Dumbphones were better in this regard
Switched to Quire but since they dont have the Gantt chart, still need to use Asana.
It's entirely replaceable with other services and software now
jk ;)