5 - Alex Li

The book talked about drop nice-to-have features how you could achieve it through several different ways  like the unnecessary test, the 60-second deadline, aiming low, and interface surgery. So for project 3 we were to redesign YouTube. One technique that I would have used would be the 60-second deadline. It would strip YouTube down to the essentials. First is to list all the features on YouTube but there are a ton so I will list a few. The feature could be the "What to Watch," "My Subscriptions," "Social," "Playlist," "History" Video likes and dislikes, Number of views, sharing functionality, and so much more. The next step would be picking out just the essential. So we could have just made YouTube a simple site to upload videos and give them likes and dislikes. The nice-to-have would be all the bells and whistle like the statistics that YouTube has the sharing functions and the subscribing. So this is what we could have done to redesign YouTube which was to pull out all the bells and whistles of YouTube and leave it as a simple video sharing site.
In the whole game of HCI this step is to help make your product different from all the other companies because you are just focusing on the essential and making sure it does what it needs to do.