Web designing and its integration is a fine art in itself. The business is growing at an exponential pace. More designers are not paying much attention to its user friendliness and easy utility. It depends upon the skills of designers how do they wirte the softwares and give them logic. Some integration bugs pop up when the cohesion between links is not properly netted which should have been driven through easier logic. Most smartphones are suffering from such problems due to poor quality software designing and cramming up tasks in it which are certain beyond their its' capacity.
If a user has a choice in between two websites he would certainly choose one with the consistent UI. In many cases businesses with one consistent UI prevails over the others simply because of its dependency irrespective of the medium being used.
I think that businesses release these website because they are pressed for deadlines and often rely on external vendors for the final product. Since, they lack the in house expertise to critically anlayze the UI they go ahead with the developers proposed solutions.
This website does that thing where if you press the submit button, there is no GUI affordance, so you don't know if your submit 'took', so you press it again ... and get two posts. I know. Crazy! :-)
@smkinoshita wrote - "So I agree -- it's far better to use something that is at least consistently available across all platforms. It's in developer's best interests -- because the sites that do so may just dominate their topic, and there are many advantages to being an entrenched go-to site." - I wonder if this at least partially explains the success of Reddit, Slashdot among forums ("why go to lots of websites when i can go to ONE with a consitent UI!") and the StackExchange Family of sites ("why go to one niche Q&A site when I can go to a bunch with a consistent UI?") - just thinking aloud ... or something like it. :-)
@smkinoshita wrote - "So I agree -- it's far better to use something that is at least consistently available across all platforms. It's in developer's best interests -- because the sites that do so may just dominate their topic, and there are many advantages to being an entrenched go-to site." - I wonder if this at least partially explains the success of Reddit, Slashdot among forums ("why go to lots of websites when i can go to ONE with a consitent UI!") and the StackExchange Family of sites ("why go to one niche Q&A site when I can go to a bunch with a consistent UI?") - just thinking aloud ... or something like it. :-)
@Kim Davis - My guess is that two things are going on here. First, we have the incentive (bonus, raise, evaluation) to ship something on a predetermined date. That's half the problem. The other half the problem is the "frankenstein" - that every powerful person in the organization needs to make a change so they can feel the website is theirs. The result, of course, is a hodgepodge of features, that, while "it's alive", certainly doesn't look good ...
@Kim Davis - My guess is that two things are going on here. First, we have the incentive (bonus, raise, evaluation) to ship something on a predetermined date. That's half the problem. The other half the problem is the "frankenstein" - that every powerful person in the organization needs to make a change so they can feel the website is theirs. The result, of course, is a hodgepodge of features, that, while "it's alive", certainly doesn't look good ...
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