Re:Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
by phist_mcgee on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:50AM
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The app I used worked nothing like the slick demo in the video. In fact, the UX and UI are some of the worst I have used in recent memory.
No matter what some backend folks believe, there will always need to be highly skilled front end engineers who can put together web apps in a way where the interface just 'gets out of the way' so you can focus on the actual utility.
Re:Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
by hutzlibu on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:19AM
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"The app I used worked nothing like the slick demo in the video."
This point is very important and I hope to not do the same misstake.
Because I also watched the video, saw what was happening there, looked nice - but trying it for myself absolutely did not work as expected.
In other words, if there is a simple video with features shown - then trying it out needs to be as simple as the video, or it causes lots of frustration.
First time users do not want to deal with setup configs etc. first. This is something you want later.
Here we have a web app that does something very clever, built by great devs, that fails because it doesn't work the way users expect it to.
So many highly intelligent, super technical founders have a belief that their amazing tech will sell itself, so they don't put the time and effort necessary in to design, UX, or marketing, and they fail because their UI didn't make it clear what to do. It probably works brilliantly when they demo to people, with the authors driving it or helping users get the most from it. But when users have to use it without that help... It fails.
The lesson for founders here is simple - test your UX, because you won't get a second chance with most customers.