Cleaning Out the Bookmarks 1 – Eye Candy Is Business Requirement
Shaving the bookmark/desktop icon collection in preparation for a Windows 7 upgrade, thought I’d at least want to keep them around on the blog. Most of these bookmarks are things I bookmarked to blog about, but never got around to it:
#1 Good collection of slides about how important a creating an appealing user experience really is.
http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/eye-candy-is-a-critical-business-requirement
Recently I was at work and somebody in management said “I just want to know how to create bad UIs faster”. Ouch. That goes against a lot of the points brought up in this slideshow. My opinion is that when you create a pleasant user experience people are more likely to give a shit about your application and I’d rather have 10 enthusiastic users than 100 ambivalent ones. ( somebody else quoted that last line better )
Users that give a shit are more likely to suggest the features they need, help with testing, and help share and promote your application to other potential customers.
I know its unprofessional to say “give a shit” instead of something like “care” but its the passion and intensity I feel when I talk about user experience makes using anything less shocking and brash very feeble sounding.