Good and Bad Interface Design

Good and Bad Interface Design

A good design is a process that takes best practices of user experience and usability guidelines to produce a desired outcome. It fills the gap between business goals and user needs.

Good design in one that is tailored for human use, and not one that is only functional and usable.

Examples:

Good Design:

Google

Being an internet giant, which provides large array of services. It is not difficult to confuse their user by pushing everything together to the user. But google takes a different approach. It believes in simplicity. Their interface is so simple, even old person can understand it.

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Google Voice Search

While driving, it is very inconvenient and extremely dangerous to find information about something or a location. The google voice search solves this problem by providing a voice recognition tool in almost all their services to get desired result.

It supports many languages and a single click interface make it user friendly for many people who doesn’t know how to type or not affluent in English.

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Bad Design:

Yahoo

Have an array of services but pushes everything to user at once which overwhelms the user. It gives the feeling that the company is unable to decide what it wants to be.

Their search bar, which should be for searching content on their website but search content on whole internet. Home page is filled with so many information.

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Design of Rs.1 and Rs.2 Coins

The design of 1 Rupee and 2 Rupee coins is almost similar. Unless you flip it around to see the numerical value on it or have a closer look. It confuses the person. A visually challenged person finds it hard to differentiate the value just by looking and sometimes need a secondary opinion.

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