We live in an increasingly diverse world. A world of Apple-style hi-tech product development and an ever-expanding internet. As a result, our expectations of what makes a good product are more than likely biased by our best experiences. We expect everything to be as good as our best experience and when it’s not that good we vent our disapproval, often with vitriol, on internet forums and in social media.
The problem hare is a mixed one, it’s a problem of managing expectation and balancing the cost of developing good products. If we move the discussion in the web space, we find similar issues. On the one hand we’re working on multi-billion dollar platform like Facebook and in the next browser tab were interacting with a website built to a tiny budget using off-the-shelf technology.
However, even budget websites can benefit from good design and not just aesthetics but good user experience. It’s true that most web developers are almost completely blind to the needs of user experience, they’re more interested in functionality. So how do we address this slowly emerging corner of the Internet? Thankfully, user experience or UX is starting to become a more common feature of the middle-weight website world. Look out for good website experiences and let us know what you find in the comments below.
