This post originally appeared onBona Kim‘sblog on Medium .
One day I opened Facebook and I see slew of messages like this .
After ensure at least 30 versions of the posts above , I in conclusion asked my friend for an invitation . I am not much of an anti - Facebook ( surprising , huh ) and was n’t really affect by their pronunciamento either , but I thought , as a product designer , I should hump what people are presently concerned in . Or , it ’s a good excuse to hide my major FOMO .
Ello ’s Manifesto
The site is in a beta mode , and you could well get the full motion-picture show of the inside view by reading recent article instead of signalize up to be a beta quizzer yourself or buy a beta - invitation on eBay for $ 100 .
What Is Ello and Should I Even Bother ?
Everything you need to know about Ello
Ello is crawling with a ton of bugs, and it will frustrate you immensely
First of all , if you ’re looking for a Facebook alternative and experience passionate about your data seclusion , I boost you not to ravage your time and wait for a few month until the site comes out of beta mode .
The site has a net ton of bugs . And it should !
After all , that ’s what beta freeing is for . You send it out to your genus Beta tester and get a detailed expression at bugs and happen out what your likely users liked and did n’t like .
The interesting part for Ello is that their beta users are mature at an exponential pace . According to their late statement,31,000people are request invites per time of day .
Can you call an experience simple and beautiful even with a ton of bugs?
What maddens me is that their promise of a uncomplicated and beautiful experience and clause confirm as such , even though it is simply not at all useable .
Often you will see messed up style tabloid
Style for “ preferences ” and other junior-grade military action will often seem broken
Not obvious in the screenshot , but “ update ” push on billet does n’t work
moreover , Ello is NOT optimized for mobile . For instance , it will keep auto - scrolling to other incision by itself . Tapping on major CTA , such as publishing your post , then having nothing happening on the screen spoil me and will frustrate you .
This is why in nimble evolution , we describe some bugs as handout blocker . The tone ascendency is at the base of user experience , because disappointed substance abuser will not come back .
Simplicity is much more than just the absences of clutter
My favorite quotation of Jony I ve is :
“ True simpleness is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornament . It ’s about bringing order to complexness . ”
Let ’s prepare aside hemipterous insect for now . Is Ello genuinely simple and beautiful ?
It eliminated a ton of features that other social networks have . But the remotion of clutter does not equal simplicity . For example , if a user is confused about its port , can you call that experience simple ?
serviceableness issue in their burden function
Usability takings in their core functions # 2
Some article mentioned that Ello ’s usability suffer , since it tried too hard to “ appear ” different than Facebook . But the above usability issues can be easily clear without changing its esthetic .
Would you say the below figure changes Ello ’s aesthetics ?
Improved usableness with same aesthetics
Improved profile varlet with sound alignment
After these pocket-sized pinch , we now have an experience that seize the initial simplistic aesthetics while at the same time keep standard World Wide Web interface behaviour many can empathise with ease .
Designing experience is more than designing the optic , and it includes killing microbe , building the correct features , giving users the right amount of affordance and never , ever leave them bemused or frustrated .
That is all for my design blah on Ello . I will before long publish about what was brilliant about Ello . Stay tuned !
This post originally appeared onBona Kim‘sblog on Medium . She is an Experience Designer with an entrepreneurial feeling . She loves design that solves hard problems , and she is passionate about making delightful experience everyday . presently working as a Lead Product Designer atSmule .
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