Recently I came upon a poll on MSNBC. The UI is very unique in that a user can submit a comment with their selection. In doing so a quantitative and qualitative analysis can be given as well as commentary feedback below the qualitative poll feedback. Users can filter the feedback to only show responses for one of selected choices.
Digg is by far my favorite site for news aggregation. It has a very strong design compared to it’s competitor Reddit, but I’m just not a fan of its mobile site topic listing.
PROBLEM 1
The topic listing looks something like a windows mobile app. The text is way too small for iPhone users and I continuously click on the wrong category.
PROBLEM 2
Why can’t I filter by one of the three post types: news, images, or video?
I understand that we want to limit functionality in a mobile site, but these functions aren’t that complex and would provide a better user experience.
My solution…
Make the buttons bigger for iPhone users, and add in 3 checkbox button filters for the post types.
One final note.
Why isn’t Google one of the categories for Technology? We have Apple, Microsoft and Linux/Unix, but not Google. This just seems odd to me.
