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Google Reader Suggestion
I put a bit of feedback on the Google reader group’s feedback and suggestions section which I thought it might be worth sharing. It illustrates a nice little point on usability
This is something that I constantly need to do which is made a bit more difficult than it needs to be.
The search box defaults to all items. Followed by read, starred, shared, friends’ shared etc.
However one of the most common searches I do is to search an individual blog that i’m currently “in”. Why isn’t this right at the top of the drop down list (yes you would need to use some clever bit of AJAXey whizz to make it so) instead of making me search down through what, in my case, is a fairly long list of blogs.
The lesson I’m sure you smart readers are aware, is that you make the most frequent actions easy to do. It’s a simple but incredibly powerful idea. The hard part in designing new apps is knowing what those most frequent actions are going to be (which feeds into the performance measurement and optimisation sermon).
