It's not empty. Do you think I sat down and thought "let's write down a post that looks like something but is actually nothing"? I assumed you'd be able to infer some examples from what I gave you. Sorry it took me longer than a sentence.
Take video streaming, like what you mentioned. Say, you have livestreaming available. How do you let the user go back and watch back old recordings? Split up the stream by days? Hours? Separate events? Have a video player with infinite seek? Be able to type in the date of the recording? A sports streaming site would answer these differently from a gaming site or your indoor camera's website. What about offering episodic content? Should it play back-to-back? Do you want fancy lists with thumbnails or will "Episode 1", "Episode 2" do just fine? Okay, now what about ad types? Should there be recommendations? Do you want a way to expand the player and dim the rest of the UI? And thousands more questions like these.
You need to make design decisions, it's inherent in the job. Being "average" just means relegating these decisions to something someone else has done before. And this can be done well, but it can also be done out of laziness that leads to obtuse GUIs that bother themselves more with current trends or eye candy than thinking about what it's made for.
tavavex|4 months ago
Take video streaming, like what you mentioned. Say, you have livestreaming available. How do you let the user go back and watch back old recordings? Split up the stream by days? Hours? Separate events? Have a video player with infinite seek? Be able to type in the date of the recording? A sports streaming site would answer these differently from a gaming site or your indoor camera's website. What about offering episodic content? Should it play back-to-back? Do you want fancy lists with thumbnails or will "Episode 1", "Episode 2" do just fine? Okay, now what about ad types? Should there be recommendations? Do you want a way to expand the player and dim the rest of the UI? And thousands more questions like these.
You need to make design decisions, it's inherent in the job. Being "average" just means relegating these decisions to something someone else has done before. And this can be done well, but it can also be done out of laziness that leads to obtuse GUIs that bother themselves more with current trends or eye candy than thinking about what it's made for.