How (not) to get people to download your app 🫣
How (not) to get people to download your app 🫣
Reddit's strategy of canibalising their own web experience (UX), and blocking third party apps, might not be working.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/2026142
A ddep dive review of the Reddit user interface by Peter Ramsay
#UX
An immensely informative and entertaining read. I’ll check that site out more in the future.
u/spez: "But at least we'll have a huge influx of mobile users after their favorite mobile apps stop working!"
Users: ...
u/spez: "Annnny second now..."
All they had to do was create an app on par with 3rd party apps, rollout ads in their API, and then display less ads on their own app. Once enough people transition, you can turn the ads back to what you were planning.
That requires insight, planning, and paying engineers to make something usable.
Spez couldn't read a room if his life depended on it.
I'm shocked that the author's first language is supposedly English.
It's pretty ironic that a page about bad UX, specifically en mobile, contains a 99 page slidedeck that I can't zoom in to read on mobile...