Designing for the Google generation
An instructive case study of use it or loose it. Have we become spoiled by Google? ...
"I just spent a few days watching people use a search interface for a site (lets call it Site X for now). What stuck with me the most was how different the design challenge was if the user was of the "Google generation". Everyone showed the Google carry over effect - expectancy of high relevance, fast searches. But for undergraduates who had grown up with Google, it was as if that was the only experience they could deal with. Anything else was too complex, too slow, too not Google.
Welcome to designing for the Google generation. Highly skilled at query development. Fast, impatient, and in a strange way - extremely inflexible. Nothing but a Googlesque interface will do." (Continued ... Via Rashmi Sinha)
"I just spent a few days watching people use a search interface for a site (lets call it Site X for now). What stuck with me the most was how different the design challenge was if the user was of the "Google generation". Everyone showed the Google carry over effect - expectancy of high relevance, fast searches. But for undergraduates who had grown up with Google, it was as if that was the only experience they could deal with. Anything else was too complex, too slow, too not Google.
Welcome to designing for the Google generation. Highly skilled at query development. Fast, impatient, and in a strange way - extremely inflexible. Nothing but a Googlesque interface will do." (Continued ... Via Rashmi Sinha)
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