pleased by posterous
- 30.10.2009
- Posted by Jonathan Firestone
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- Customer Experience ,Design ,Opinion ,Technology ,User Experience ,User Interface ,Web 2.0
I am pleased by Posterous.
The general user experience for this Web Application/Blogging/Posting tool is really very, very good. I have always urged app makers to tie their sites more closely to email when it made sense to do so — intranets, or extranets for example. I would argue that usability-wise, if you want to produce a blog post, or post media of some kind it makes a lot of sense to go no further than your email app for preparing it, since
A) Almost all email programs or web-based services out there support rich formatting, with linking and upload capabilities. Formatting, spell checking and all sorts of features exist in your email program and generally they do it all quite well. Even Gmail. So, this makes posting correctly real easy.
B) You also spend a good chunk of your online life in email right? I think it makes all the sense in the world for your blogging access to be close by.
I’ll have to add more as I have thoughts on the subject. Now, all I have to do is fix it so if I’m sending a post out, it’s not including my signature line.
So Far:
- The Good: Very quick setup. They’re absolutely right. And it ties into multiple services easily.
- The Bad: I’m not always fond of the interface layouts, but it appears every effort is made to give you the power to make changes. And of course it helps if you know what you are doing with with HTML and CSS (which I do, but haven’t mucked around with yet.)
