User experience elements of browser product design

There are too many browsers now. This is a lot of users will mention a word, yes indeed a lot, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Maxthon, TT
Since there are many similar products in front of users, users need to choose a "good", or more suitable for their own, from the product point of view, we need to fully grasp the user's experience of the product elements. The following are some of the elements of the user experience that affect the user experience:

1. Installation process

The speed and complexity of the installation process will affect the user's first critical experience of the product, and if the client has a slow local installation, the user will have a related psychological impression, the installation progress can be slow before 10% and 70%, but in the middle must express a quick impression of the process. During the installation process, in addition to selecting the installation directory, the interval operation recommended one-step (the less the clutter of user options the better), if there must be some interval links, the UI suggested that a care-type dialogue.

2. Start Process

This I think is very key, just like double click QQ Desktop icon after your psychological needs, the speed is very critical. Add to consider the loading of the application does need time, but also can be a priority to run the interface, after the interface is launched after all users need a period of time to enter the Web site, this time to complete the browser all need to run the program.

3, user interface

The interface is a tastes factor, there is no defined style orientation, here the key to the interface is the product UI design must fully consider the user group's visual enjoyment, increase the Rich interface project content (of course, without affecting the speed of the premise), such as the author thinks that users can take into account the phenomenon of long time online, To provide a long and gradual gradient interface color service mechanism, example: long-time Internet users in the visual and human emotions will appear fatigue and decline, the browser interface to moderate changes in the color of the green system (I did not study the physical aspects, here for example), the daytime period set two hours a "visual care", and to the evening time, Appropriate to become another color, with this warm tips to care for the user, so that the browser in the interface project will be more than a chip.

4. Resource Occupancy

A good browser will certainly care about the problem of resource consumption, although at the beginning of the user's attention to this is not very large, but a long time will be the user's psychological impact of overflow risk, I used Google's browser before a version, from installation to start using a period of time, experience is good, But with a little more than a child, in the task manager found that the memory footprint is large, the threat of psychological response will be born. In the resource occupancy, I also just recognize the product development orientation and its impact, the solution does not make recommendations.

5. Loading Speed

Page load speed and resource occupancy is relatively large, and the user is still considering the front-end experience, and then the complex backend must ensure the perfect front-end experience.

6, fast function

The rich, user-friendly is very important, in addition to providing a series of perfect shortcut functions, but also to fully consider the default mode of these shortcuts to meet the user's experience habits. For example, Google Browser does not have a mouse gesture for users without any sense of damage, but for people with the habit should provide such a function; When browsing the Web page, individuals feel that the current browser operation is still more cumbersome, more steps, should be simplified, a key collection, Of course, some users will say to me, also need to classify the collection. I think classification is only a level two goal, one goal is to collect, the traditional way of collecting web pages is to two of the preparation of the operation target all the users ready to click to determine the completion of the collection (the operation of at least 3), but can provide users to browse the page in the same interface on a click can complete the collection of the Web page, Then immediately in the unimportant position pop-up classification hint, there is a need to classify the user can be advanced operation, users do not need to ignore, the window 10 good (assuming) subsided, or directly click on the page in any position of the pop-up window also immediately subsided. There are a lot of users in the fast-action functions need to pay attention to the place, fast operation I think is the experience accounted for a larger piece.

7. Application extension

With the development of the Internet, more applications will be integrated in the browser, providing more perfect application expansion layer is very important, the impact on product marketing will be very large. Application extensions need to take into account both the user's local application and the two-way gratification of the Internet application, roaming in this piece is now doing a good job, the establishment of the center to provide users with more clear management module, the local application is added to it, which is the user care of the design elements fully reflected.

8, stability

In the course of use because the user opened too many pages, the page program type complex and so easy to cause the browser hangs, this is certainly normal, in the maximum degree of protection of the stability of the browser at the same time, the problem of the current many browsers to provide two services, the first service is user emotional drainage, The browser prompts the user whether to send the error report and write it down to reduce the user's complaint about the product; After the reboot, the browser prompts you for the last error exit, and then closes some of the following pages. This model is good, at the same time can be suspended after the exit to provide automatic restart, do not require the user to manually start (after all, the accident is closed, everyone wants to recover immediately), after the restart can add some tips, such as the common reasons for hanging off, how to maximize the optimization and prevent such phenomena occur, After all, users see the problem also want to immediately experience in the heart to get more truth, but users are too lazy to manually search related content. Stability can only be improved gradually, at the same time the application degree of deepening and expanding, but also affect stability, so the technical level of discussion will be a long-term dialectical analysis, but how from the user perspective to improve and assist users to improve the use of habits, how to concern users in the presence of problems to reduce customer complaints about product accidents, This is exactly what we as a product design can grasp controllable.

9. Safety

Users of the use of the browser in the process of security concerns are mainly the account password, the target site is safe, advertising filtering and so on, from the technical point of view should form a dynamic demand acquisition and real-time technology implementation, from the product point of view can be used to dialogue with users to shape product safety, for example, QQ in the image of security to do a better job, in addition to the normalization of security prompts (such as the top of the dialog box will be prompted not to trust others to request account information, although this is a lot of people know, but the long-term do not necessarily is to tell users a plain truth, Instead of impacting the user experience and showing the product's concern for the user, the appearance of the product's security image, but also to establish a dynamic product services, such as browser statistics users visit the site, in the number of blocked sites in the case, the browser can be dynamically prompted (the following bullet box tips) to ensure the importance of security , users can be prompted dynamically during peak virus season.

In addition, there is an independent factor, is the product from the update, some browser set the update prompt mode is in the user to start the browser, the bomb box is already opened one or two pages, this will greatly disturb the user, but also need users to wait for download update file download, I do not like, So when will you be prompted to update? Personally, the browser's update file is not large, the user can accept a higher level, the key is whether the user update (installation), imagine the user in the process of using the browser, the background automatically download the update file, but do not make any prompts, when users actively close the browser when prompted user updates , the user clicks on the installation update, and prompts you to experience the new features in the next time you use the text.

Finally, I think the user is the smartest, he knows which is good and which is bad, product is not a solid, it is dynamic, product service This must be a trend, so in this article, I am reckless to emphasize two words, the first is User care, the second is user dialogue, as product designers do need to embrace the attitude of service to do products, Only in this way users and our products will be friends.

These are the individual in the browser product thinking a little bit of feeling, music and sharing and exchange.