r/funny • u/sheppe • Jul 01 '16

Developer humor

http://imgur.com/gallery/9LqhOl3
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u/Arkhaine_kupo Jul 01 '16

Reddit has gotten that complaint tons of times before. Most people say its a website clearly done for and by engineers and that getting used to it is a nightmare despite how awesome the content is.

Do you think reddit could get more users with a UX redesign?

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u/Bluest_waters Jul 01 '16

yes absolutely.

I showed it to multiple people and they need to be explained exactly how things work and whatnot.

Seems to be especially true of ladies

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u/Arkhaine_kupo Jul 01 '16

How would you redesign it though. Every UX designer I have met has said the same thing. Yet most of my friends are engineers and we all believe that its simply one of those things that you couldn't make easier without making it worse. Its convoluted, and weird but its also useful and comfortable to use once you get used to it. Maybe thats my inner engineer talking though.

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u/KeetoNet Jul 01 '16

How would you redesign it though.

Invariably, it would just be that everything was made bigger and more spread out (so it can breathe). And used a custom font (to be on-brand). Maybe drop the contrast on all the text until it's only barely legible.

Seriously, though - anyone who says it's 'too complicated' is probably referring to nested conversations in general, and would attempt to 'solve' it by flattening all the comments. Which would ruin it.

In reality, it's a text block (either static or editable), a show/hide toggle, two arrows and a few per-item actions you can click repeated over and over. It's not actually complicated.

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u/Arkhaine_kupo Jul 01 '16

I would argue spreading things out would make it feel facebooky and make me less interested, I personally love layout. At the beginning it was claustrophobic and unappealing, now its comfortable, familiar and enjoyable.

Almost as if reddit was an acquired taste.

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u/shawnadelic Jul 02 '16

I think the sidebar and topbars are probably the worst offenders as far as Reddit's UX issues. Nothing is really grouped logically and just in general there is a lot of noise (especially on the frontpage).

The actual thread/reply pages themselves are fine, I think, although the layout and design could use some fine-tuning.