Design Dont’s: Seesmic is the Frankenstein of Status Apps

by Alex Rainert on April 27, 2009 · View Comments

(This, my friends, is an abomination, no matter how many features it has)

Is it me or has Seesmic just taken a bunch of different perfectly good applications (and corresponding interaction models) and just crammed them together, creating a completely disjointed user experience that looks and feels a bit like this:

If you want to read more about their newest client you can do so here.

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{ 5 comments }

1 Maxime VALETTE April 27, 2009 at 5:12 pm: Totally agree. It's a very poor copy of Mac UI. But I guess Windows users enjoy
2 Daniel Brusilovsky April 27, 2009 at 5:23 pm: Before I can switch to Seesmic Desktop, they need to fix their UI. It's unusable, it's so cluttered! Look at Tweetie for Mac – the UI is brilliant, and it's a rich native app unlike Adobe AIR.
3 Yoni April 30, 2009 at 1:34 pm: Amusingly enough, I'm pretty sure someone over at Seesmic has been using my Twitter tools excessively to see who or what is being asked/answered by the @askseesmic account. Someone is doing some serious Twitter research.
4 Sachendra Yadav July 3, 2009 at 9:19 am: If that wasn't enough, it takes up loads of CPU and RAM
5 Sachendra Yadav July 3, 2009 at 4:19 pm: If that wasn't enough, it takes up loads of CPU and RAM