Instagram's UX Problems

http://jakeculp.me/blog/2012/12/8/instagrams-ux-problems

by jakeculp • 14 years ago

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kzasada• 14 years ago

Another one: if I know someone's user name I can't add them through the "Find & Invite Friends" page under options, I can only do it through the explore page.

Also, the forced cropping of pictures taken outside of the app is by far the most annoying UX thing from my perspective.

newobj• 14 years ago

"people taking pictures of their weed and their 18 children with their baby daddies"

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jakeculp4• 14 years ago

It's a joke, take it or leave it.

currysausage• 14 years ago

Right now, the UX problem I am faced with is the sheer non-readability of your blog. First, I trust the fonts look beautiful on a Mac, and it certainly is not your fault that font rendering on Windows sucks big time, but unless you want to lock out a rather large share of potential visitors, you should really test your design on a Windows machine. Your fonts are simply unreadable on Win7/Chrome. Second, light gray text on salmon background? Seriously? That is virtually zero contrast!

jakeculp4• 14 years ago

I just recently converted from Windows to Mac and when on Windows the fonts looked fine.

idan• 14 years ago

While these are certainly improvements that Instagram could make to improve their app, this article is more attitude than helpful critique. Absent the cruft, there is little substance here.

Unworthy of HN, IMO.

jakeculp4• 14 years ago

Well, its on here, I guess you can just choose to ignore it then.

omonra2• 14 years ago

I actually don't get one point that I hear often and that's made in this article. Namely that Instagram used to have higher quality of photos. And now that it's more popular, the quality has gone down.

But what does it matter to YOU, what the average user is putting up? I have a list of people that I follow - who I consider good or am interested in. The fact that there is a million or billion other users snapping ugly photographs is irrelevant. Would you judge a photo-lab based on the service they offer or how good the photos of their other users are?

jakeculp4• 14 years ago

My criticism of their user base was not suppose to be a given point in my argument and so most of that statement dealt with personal details instead of things that would effect others as well.

omonra2• 14 years ago

Right - I understand that this was a tangential point.

But I just see it brought up consistently (that Instagram is getting worse because of decreasing average photo quality) - which I don't get.

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