Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, 1023 days ago

Usability review for Go.taobao.com

This is the 2nd part of usability evaluation for go.taobao.com. According to the 1st part evaluation, we found some of unfluent to browse the pictures which is probably due to the networking speed. So, in this review, networking was test 5 times destributed in different times in the day and night.

One random search word was selected on the page which looks quite hot. And, onece the first page was ready, regular click started at the rate of 1 click one second. Looks quite smooth at the first beginning~

Oops, looks something happened accidently, the picture displaying was sucked although the small thumbnails were still working.

Ok, waiting would be the only thing to do…

Getting into the picture detail entry, new window, detailed page and … oops, a small thumb’s missing.

Finally, the pictures caught up with my brouwsing. Wait… what is this, motel ? i found it when i was searching skirt ? Cool~

Again, similar lagging behind things happened, fortunately, i have understood it now.

So, the review conclusions:

1)  Precise picture matching, need be improved ( at least dont mistook motel to women’s dress, ;] ).

2) It is better to improve the rapidly picture browsing, don’t show sucking status in the front of users.

3) Small thumbnails are much faster to be loaded than big ones, why not fill the page with numrous of small pictures ( clear enough ) which would indicate bloody number of pictures.

4) The most important one, fliping from right to left seems not the perfectly effecient way to display information like those thousands of handreds pictures. If it flips fast, it looks blur and the users can not see the contents.