Big claims but no examples. What are some complex apps that are seamless and easy?
There's a reason why a cockpit of Airbus 380 looks intimidating. Some of the complex stuff looks complex.
There's a reason why a cockpit of Airbus 380 looks intimidating. Some of the complex stuff looks complex.
Google products don't intimidate me with a large number of features, rather they annoy me by hiding the features I use all the time while shoving things in my face I could care less about, expecting me to do things in the opposite order of how I expect to use them, etc. Search for "Google transit" and you don't find an entrance to Google maps optimized for transit users, instead you find a landing page that is probably of interest to 1% of the people who are searching for that
https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/
I wanna say that it is "enterprisey" in that it is certainly oriented to about 50,000 enterprises worldwide but it's got the same visual veneer of simplicity that Google likes which doesn't come across as "enterprisey"
Perhaps to a novice. But for experienced folks it is pretty ok.
What gets me are applications for "creative" people. I was in this hackathon [1]
https://prod.cis.cornell.edu/dgas-first-game-jam-gives-game-...
where I used Unity for the first time and thought it was nuts, the same way I'd think Photoshop was nuts if I wasn't used to it.
[1] we won! had a guy who was good at making platformers in Unity and a gal who was a good artist. I was just the startup veteran who knows the meaning of "minimum" and "viable" and how to find the intersection
Figuring out how to extract the GPS coordinates for a location (without having to deconstruct the URL or delve into devtools) after the latest UI rearrangement in gmaps has been turning into a regular a scavenger hunt...
This isn't complex stuff. With some regressions it's hard to tell what's negligence and what's actively user-hostile. My Occam's Razor is growing duller by the quarter.