Instagram is the 6th most popular social network in the world and we spend a good amount of time daily on Instagram. Instagram is often praised for its UX design which has made it a hit among youngsters. However, there are quite a few UX design principles / standards that Instagram breaks regularly. Is this something that differentiates Instagram from the rest or is this a missed opportunity by Instagram? Let’s discuss the 5 User Experience design that Instagram does wrong.
When was the last time you accessed Facebook through the web (laptop / desktop)? I’m sure it’s been quite some time for most of you. A lot of us probably don’t even remember our Facebook password because we are just always logged in to the Facebook app through our phones and just don’t feel the need of logging in through the web. However, on those rare occasions when you do have to login through the web, the user experience totally puts you off. It feels like it’s just been quickly put together by someone in no time and is there just for the sake of it. There is no way it looks like a product with 16 years worth of rich UX data and insights. In my opinion, the Facebook Web user experience is dead. It’s not just “not good”, it’s bad.
Facebook’s web page can be broken down into 5 major components –
Continue readingLove it or Hate it, but if you have even the slightest of the interest in the tech industry, the you just can’t ignore TikTok. And recently, the only big news in the tech industry that everybody is keenly following is the potential acquisition (in part or global) of TikTok. Microsoft is the frontrunner right now in the list of buyers with some reports suggesting the potential deal size to be as high as $50 billion. But, is TikTok really worth $50 billion? Or does it even make sense for anyone to acquire TikTok in the first place? Let’s try to figure out.
Gmail probably is “the” most used email client all over the world. However, even with it’s countless advantages, Gmail also has its fair share of feature gaps and user experience issues. But we still keep using it, being fully aware of these known issues and hoping that it’ll soon be fixed in the upcoming updates. And when these issues don’t get fixed, then over a period of time they start annoying you a lot more than they normally should and makes you go “Why Gmail Why??”. Highlighting a few such issues below –
First of all, apologies for the clickbaitish title. However, i do believe that Lord Krishna was a great product manager (if not the best) and there is a lot to be learned about Product management from Lord Krishna and his life.
1. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita – “The” best PRD ever
It is a well established opinion that Shrimad Bhagavad Gita has answers to all the problems of life. This is akin to the concept of PRD (Product requirement document) in the Product Management world.
When Arjun (i.e. the Developer) was having doubts about performing his duties as a warrior (i.e. Product development) in the battlefield (i.e. Sprint), he reached out to Lord Krishna (i.e. the Product Manager) and Lord Krishna guided him by reciting verses which later constituted Shrimad Bhagavad Gita (i.e. the PRD)
Thus, we can say that Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is the best and the most detailed PRD ever created by the best Product Manager ever.
Continue readingThe Covid-19 pandemic is for sure gonna be “the” most defining moment of most of our lives. It has forced us to change/rethink every big and small aspect of our life. However, here i am just gonna focus on how Covid-19 has permanently changed the course of Product Management.
Work From Home
This is one of the biggest impact Covid-19 has made on almost every business and profession across the world. Pre Covid there was more or less a general consensus that work from home decreases productivity. Many companies as a policy didn’t even allowed work from home for its employees.
However, due to Covid-19 and the worldwide lockdowns that followed, companies were forced to allow extended work from home policy.
And just like that, the myth got busted. Companies realized that there is no significant impact on productivity due to work from home. This was even more prominent in the Tech domain and as a result, some companies like Twitter and Slack have even gone ahead with the bold move of permanent work from home.
Continue readingWe all depend on calendar apps in one way or the other for keeping track of our meetings, reminders or other important events (~70% as per a survey). With more than a billion downloads, Google Calendar is probably “the” most used calendar app right now. Recently i came across a bug in the Google Calendar Android app and sharing the details below –
Observation
Google Calendar Android app has a bug while showing meetings with duration less than 30 mins. In the app UI, all the meetings of less than 30 min appear to be of 30 min duration.
However, no such issue is observed on the web version and there the meeting tiles are shown in proper size.
So JioMeet has obviously “copied” / “inspired” it’s User Interface (UI) from Zoom. That is a fact and there is no denying it. Anyone who says otherwise need not be taken seriously.
Enough has already been said and discussed all over the internet about the UI similarities between JioMeet and Zoom. There is good amount of debate done and internet has basically been divided into 3 camps –
Anyways, here are my two cents on the topic –
The key metric that everyone is gunning for is the user base or adoption. The target group for these apps can be broadly divided into traditional B2B and B2C segments. Let’s discuss some key points for these segments –
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