User Experience Design example: Watercress UI Design improvement

One of the important features of Web 2.0 is that it is more similar to the self-organizing phenomenon of the biological world. The user, like a single-celled organism, wanders through a nutrient-filled liquid, until it falls somewhere in a structure (web site) where nutrition is sufficient to sustain it to produce continuous, regular growth (user habits). At the same time, when there are enough simple cells to assemble, there will be qualitative changes that affect the proportion and manner of nutrients in this part of the structure. So the technical focus of Web 2.0, such as Ruby on Rails,ajax, is often in areas such as fast and complete refactoring, part of the framework being updated, in fact, overturning an unsuccessful evolutionary model, restarting evolutionary experimentation, retaining known-good functional modules, and eventually finding a viable paradigm.

In fact, watercress has been a small adjustment, I believe that the emotional design ah, interactive design of the road Ah, the user experience elements should be required to book the desk. In fact, watercress is probably one of the most user-tolerant sites in the UI and even throughout the branding process, because its target audience is the group of young people who are educated, open-minded and inquisitive. These people are better at thinking about why and why not, rather than simply clicking and searching in front of new things. The downside is that watercress is still using a simple color and composition of the logo. In fact, watercress can fully consider the use of the user's positive feedback, continuous small scope of the revision test and comparative analysis of tests to speed up the pace of evolution and progress. Let me say a little bit about my UI improvements.

1. Separate presentation of interactive and non-interactive information flow.

Because the watercress is in the unceasing improvement evolution to today's appearance, therefore will inevitably have some thinking vague time. If you remember correctly, the watercress is made up of comments-neighbors-message-group-with the city-square curve of the way to develop. This pattern is obviously on demand, the advantage is not to gild the lily, the disadvantage is that there is no obvious framework design concept. By my experience as a user, my feeling is that I can't access all the interactive information that I personally have on a page. I can see my diary/Picture/comment/broadcast reply and continue to interact in my watercress, I can also see the follow-up progress of some of the other users I'm replying to, but I still need to click on the group--my statement--and I've responded three times to see the progress of the group topic I'm replying to. In addition, my city activities do not take the initiative to remind that the bean mail in the reminder activity is not a good way, or Microsoft will not have to add a calendar in Outlook. To put it simply, I hope that these can be presented in a single page and provide an effective organization for further access.

Second, on the static content section, such as the book Audio and video part, the data organization is too simple, watercress from the beginning to provide the tag function did not play a clear role, neither aggregation nor tag cloud, but back to the basic classification of the form, The trans-media and cross-category features of beans are not highlighted (in fact, I think it's perfectly possible to add other people's comments and diaries to the bean column), which makes the watercress more like a multimedia library than an unknown nutrient solution that can be continuously explored.

2. Interaction granularity.
The simplest and most obvious is that many people are now using the recommendation and the reply function to replace the Mark function, which is already apparent in their recommendation, is simple "mark" or "code". This is when there is no hammer with pliers to smash nails plan, but the beans do not seem to realize that there is no feedback back, so far there is no collection function available. This is one of the reasons why I recommend expanding the bean column function.
Also, many social networking sites offer the ability to bite each other, shake hands and even steal food from each other. It is because, in the organization of human society, there is a need for redundant information exchange between people, similar to the monkey comb hair, play a role in stability, and there are subtle differences between different gestures. From this perspective, we also need to evolve a rich network of contacts, although watercress does not and should not copy the boring trick of stealing vegetables, but it seems that should also consider designing a set of unique body language, if you can have similar "Wish Force with You" of the sentence is more fun.
There's one thing you can refer to. QQ recently added to comment on the function of friends, this is not known why watercress has not. Most of the time, we don't have a problem with a particular person (a friend), or a particular thing (a dream of red mansions), but for him to see the dream of the red mansions may have some kind of reflection, that is to say, I would like to make a simple comment (by the way, watercress can not mark the reading age, the number of more fine-grained data, It would be much more akin to the patterns of behaviour in our daily lives that the people I had seen in grade 5 could not find a bosom friend. In a similar situation, I would like to state that a movie was sleeping two times, and that a movie could not find a more nuanced, more humane message than a urine point.
3rd, is also very interesting point, is overheard. Watercress still can not know, my friends, and did not mention me, (need the Backstage Tag index support) Then I mention a friend, whether I want him to know and so on. This feature, along with other features, can further complicate the problem and allow users to interact into richer levels and domains.

3. Interactive mode.
Watercress Group is one of the biggest invention of watercress, greatly enriching the exchange and communication between bean friends, but there are some signs of use inconvenience. For example, the collection function mentioned just now and the indexing function not mentioned. Second, there is no only see the landlord such a function, because a considerable part of the post is narrative rather than discuss sex. For the discussion of the post, the watercress did not use indentation and reply to such functions separately comb, but simply straight column reply, let a person regret. And because of the type limitations of the group and the weakening of the square, it's a shame I can't see the topic of a group that I might be interested in but not joined.