5 - Kalvin Greer

When working with project three there were definitely times where I thought to myself, "is it really necessary to have that"? This chapter speaks to those thoughts exactly. If there was a feature that I would remove from YouTube it would have to be the My Subscriptions button on the top left pane. This is because there is already a Subscriptions pane dedicated to just that, subscriptions, so having another button to do the same thing is rather useless. This falls under one of the simple questions that one should ask themselves when designing an application, "Is there more than one way to complete the task this feature supports"? The answer is yes so therefore there is no point to have two buttons doing basically the same thing on the main screen. It simply clutters up the homepage and makes it seem harder to use than it needs to be. This can even fall back on the game of HCI as a whole. The idea is to give the user a nice, clean, and simple experience when they use your app. This is a prime example of when you could use a 60 second deadline to figure out that this might be just a little too much fluff.