Saturday, August 23, 2008

dear myspace,

If you have to put things on your website like "Note: do NOT click back in your browser window!" then that probably  means there is something wrong with the way you are coding things.

Tom's notes about things being "down for maintenance" or "we're fixing this soon!" are also not very reassuring....

Please fix things.

Stop adding new features. They're confusing and only make things worse. Take a course in HCI and do some user studies about how people like your site...everyone's accustomed to it, but that's not an excuse for poor design. On my home page I see at least eight ads, seven drop-down menus, eight tab menus, six boxes, and five edit links. Do you really think people enjoy it being that complicated?

Instead of adding new things, make your code bulletproof. Fix your design. Then, focus your energy on doing what you do well first, and then expand after you've got something stable going. There are challenges to building and maintaining something so big, but I have faith that you can handle it.

k thanks!

lauren

2 comments:

IndianaJane456 said...

psh no one really uses myspace anymore anyways :P

laurenelizabeth said...

yes, true.
I still have a small subset of friends who only use MySpace and I don't understand...but I keep it for their sake. Before yesterday I hadn't updated the account in ages.

i added you. hahahahahha.