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

by Alex Rainert on April 27, 2009 · 6 comments

in Design Don'ts,Interface,Thoughts

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(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:

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

Tagged as: seesmic

  • http://www.maximevalette.com Maxime VALETTE

    Totally agree. It's a very poor copy of Mac UI. But I guess Windows users enjoy :)

  • http://www.danielbru.com Daniel Brusilovsky

    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.

  • http://infinityplusone.com/ Yoni

    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.

  • http://designnotes.info/?p=1762 DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop (5·01·09)

    [...] Design Dont’s: Seesmic is the Frankenstein of Status Apps I think this post proves that it’s best for design and engineering to work together as opposed to each of them working from their own pov. [...]

  • http://sachendra.com Sachendra Yadav

    If that wasn't enough, it takes up loads of CPU and RAM

  • http://sachendra.com Sachendra Yadav

    If that wasn't enough, it takes up loads of CPU and RAM

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