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We’re living in a web era that constraints seem to be the latest trend: nowadays, it seems everything must lack something to succeed. Usually, it’s features.

I’m not complaining - I like constraints. I’ve found out that my 1200+ updates in Twitter have seriously improved my writing skills, since I have to express everything in 140 characters. Flickr made a bold move, adding a tiny limit (compared to YouTube) to video lengths, consequently turning its newcomer Video service to more like a Long Photograph service.

Internationally, users have learned to embrace lack of features and seek simplicity in web apps, which should focus on finding their niche and not just do everything at once.

Or have they?

I’m puzzled - do users really like all the fancy features we all work so hard to provide them, or are they happy with what they get at the first place?

Discuss.

constraints, flickr, youtube, twitter, users

This entry was posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 11:42 pm by Sugar and is filed under Accessibility-Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.