Bing dictionary vs youdao dictionary Comparison Test Report-functions and details of functions

The reason why we put the details and user experience together is that the two are so inseparable. The so-called "Details determine success or failure", in terms of details, allows users to feel convenient, comfortable, not painstaking and warm, more humanistic ideas, more feelings, the products made are naturally more popular than other rigid products. Today, we will evaluate the performance of the two popular dictionaries, youdao dictionary and Bing dictionary, in terms of details and user experience.

• Install

Bundled Installation

This is the "first impression" of users during the initial installation of software ". As we all know, most of the software now comes with a variety of bundled installation software. If you don't care about what you don't want in your computer, the image of the software in the user's mind is greatly compromised.

The software is bundled during the installation of Bing, and the search engine and homepage are modified by default. You need to know. Home pages and search engines are the portals for users to access the Internet. They also indicate that this is a long-term habit of users. It is impossible for users to change their habits instantly by installing a learning translation software. This also shows that the conversion rate is extremely low, and the user is very bad (especially when changing the homepage ). Of course, this is not what Bing did. youdao also adopted the bundling installation (youdao cloud note) + modification of the home page (163 web site navigation.

• Sensory experience

Let's take a look at the start interface of the two software.

Microsoft Bing dictionary

 

We can see that the Bing dictionary follows the flat style of Microsoft's full-line products since Windows 8 in 2012, which gives a strong sense of simplicity and fashion. The "Microsoft Bing Dictionary" displayed in the form title of the program contains an enterprise's feelings.

On the main interface, the "one sentence per day", "one word per day", and "read every day" modules are provided, and the sharing and adding-to-favorites options are provided, in addition, there are settings, login button, the overall feeling is more humane.

Of course, in the Windows 8 operating system with a relatively monotonous single-color flat UI, the Bing dictionary interface will also easily lead to Aesthetic Fatigue for users. Here, I am going to explain my feelings about Microsoft since its flattening. Indeed, Microsoft is driving the flat wave, but Microsoft won the first battle. Later, Win8, win8.1 or even win10 did not improve the style, compared with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, we will find that the Win8 UI style is increasingly unable to meet users' aesthetic needs.

Youdao dictionary

 

In comparison, youdao dictionary has many improvements in this aspect. First, the title of the form is "youdao dictionary 5.4", and the version number following the form is unnecessary. Second, the program interface is the traditional win7 interface, and the most prominent part of the interface is actually the advertisement of "youdao professional Translation ?! Only when the user performs manual scrolling, The youdao dictionary displays a push similar to Bing's "one sentence per day" and "one word per day. Of course, youdao dictionary also provides the sharing option. Turn your eyes away from the advertisement, and find whether the advertisement is low or not ...... I am very disappointed. That is to say, in terms of design philosophy, youdao dictionary does not spend enough time to consider potential user needs in addition to satisfying users' basic word query requirements, at least it is not reflected on the main interface. In addition to the advertisement, youdao dictionary also designed a "option" button, even more options than Bing dictionary, such as entering the word base, switching to the mini window, etc. However, large-area advertisements make these options difficult for users to find. In this case, advantages seem to play a side effect of amplification.

The above-mentioned planning of the UI style, UI theme, main interface, and even the display program name on the program bar can be regarded as a small detail in the whole project, the user had a "second impression" on the software before entering anything ". Obviously, Microsoft's Bing dictionary is more perfect in this respect.

 

• Interactive experience
  • Menu

Menus are also a factor that affects user experience, because GIF cannot be performed. Here, we will post the Amazon menu design evaluation. The evaluation ideology we use is based on this.

Http://www.csdn.net/article/2013-03-07/2814390-breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown

The result is that the youdao dictionary has obvious latency issues. On the other hand, Bing dictionary does not have a sub-menu, so it cannot be evaluated, but there is no obvious lag in terms of the speed at which the menu appears.

• • Image assistance

During the test, we found that when you input some words that are not frequently used, such as animals you don't know, the two dictionaries will be word-based, this allows users to quickly associate words with real-world entities. However, the image loading speed of the Bing dictionary is obviously slow.

 

(Pictures in youdao dictionary)

 

(Bing dictionary picture)

 

 

• • Authority

You can perceive the existence of professional dictionaries from the official website or software. Professional dictionaries are not the most important or important for a translation software, but they also affect the choice of many users. We have not been able to refer to the library used by the Bing dictionary on the official website or in our programs. Compared with professional dictionaries such as the Collins English-Chinese dictionary, the Concise English-Chinese dictionary, and the Wei Ke English-Chinese dictionary, Bing's dictionary is not clear about its major. If the dictionary is derived only from the massive data collected by Bing search and background machine analysis, we may not worry about using the dictionary. Does Bing lack the authority of the professional dictionary?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

(Authoritative Dictionary of youdao dictionary) (Bing dictionary is not so reassuring)

 

• • Subsequent Query

The subsequent query here refers to the query of a new word immediately after the user completes a word query. For a previously used dictionary, you need to manually select the query column, delete the previous words, and enter new words. This greatly reduces the query efficiency: who wants to switch between the mouse and the keyboard? Fortunately, both software took this issue into consideration and applied the same policy-simply entering new words to automatically overwrite previous words.

• • Focus

　　

Although youdao dictionary is not very fashionable in highlighting, it allows users to focus on the position where the mouse is parked.

The Bing dictionary is highlighted only when you move the mouse over the settings. Other tabs do not reflect the mouse movement.

• • Automatic Error Correction

Both software provides the automatic correction/near-tone word search function. When users cannot accurately enter the queried word or mistakenly enter the word, they will be prompted. However, in terms of automatic error correction, the Bing dictionary provides better error correction capabilities and provides Error Correction help in terms of sound closeness and shape closeness.

• Other details
  • Confirm the operation that requires one more confirmation for the query

Youdao can automatically display the basic meaning of a word while the user inputs the word without the user's confirmation. You can press enter to view more detailed information. In this way, if you only need to know the simple meaning of a word, you can get the result while inputting the word. While Bing and Kingsoft perform the input operation, the software does not provide any feedback until the user returns to confirm. User operations require real-time feedback, highlighting software intelligence, and real-time feedback to users, allowing users to obtain relevant information in advance, it also simplifies the query operation process.

(Bing needs the user to press enter to confirm the detailed interpretation of the word, because the signal is blocked by the candidate item)

(Youdao dictionary before pressing enter)

 

• Summary

General evaluation (each item is very)

Bing dictionary	20% installation experience	Sensory experience 35%	Interactive experience 35%	Other 10%
Basic	5	9	8	6
Weighted	1	3.15	2.8	0.6
Total score	7.55

 

Aside from other evaluation factors, Bing is doing better in detail processing and user experience. If the two software can modify the bugs mentioned above, I believe they will be more competitive in the future.

 

Bing dictionary vs youdao dictionary Comparison Test Report-functions and details of functions