steve kwan user experience designer

A failed UI overhaul

(September 25th, 2007 - 4:02PM)

The other day, my mother told me that she noticed I hadn't updated my website in a while. Bearing in mind that my mother rarely visits the site, this is awfully disturbing news. After all, if she thinks I'm not updating enough, then I'm definitely not.

The other night I attempted to overhaul stevekwan.com's UI. Some preliminary user testing revealed that almost everyone preferred the current design, so I've stuck with it. There are a few changes I'd like to make - in particular, removing the ability to comment - which will clean up the interface.

Richard mentioned that I should explain the importance of comments on this site. I don't view stevekwan.com as a Web 2.0 site. This isn't a community. Although I'd love to hear your feedback, I ultimately don't feel like user comments are an important part of this site. If you want to publish content, get your own blog. There are plenty of other community sites out there that do a much better job of it than I ever could, so use them.

The purpose of stevekwan.com is for me to talk to you. Again, I'd love to hear your feedback, but I see no reason why I should let others contribute to my content.