Features build application easy to use; features enhance value of product.

To build/increase the value of product, we need to think about user-friendliness of application. It is true that it will be varied based on end user test. So, I do some analysis in respect to client’s demand. From my observation there are different types of users;

- Some people like many modules integration in one application, from where they can navigate or maintain their day to day activities in real time, like Yahoo new home page (http://m.www.yahoo.com) or Google wave , ...

- Google’s common error page is classic and smart which prevents robot attack and gives user-friendly message as well.

fig: Google common error

- You and me most of the time hit URL from bookmarks or by writing on address bar. But some user always do search and hit URL just by copy-paste. For this little control GOOGLE implements some user-friendly options in GOOGLE Chrome, they did it very smartly.Among of various options, Paste and go and Paste and search are very endowment feature options to make users to understand that GOOGLE think about optimization, even by reducing action step(s). They give option Paste and go or Paste and search based on copied data; if it’s URL (if copied data has URL pattern perfectly or IP only, say google.com or 72.14.207.99) then Paste and go otherwise Paste and search is found on context menu. This is amazing, thanks to free GOOGLE. But, still I am missing some features on Chrome which are ‘Undo close tab’, ‘Add-ons’ like developer APIs to extend the core functionality with custom components.

fig: Paste and search

fig: Paste and go

- Implement some features that take care of careless users and increase security, say we can consider yahoo’s sing out feature, if we use Keep me signed in, after 2 weeks, it will sign out automatically from yahoo system.

fig: Keep me signed in

- To enhance usability need to come out from some ancient thinking. Such as in user registration/change profile form, usually there is found password input field where password characters are displayed. User can’t see those characters what he/she is typing on password textbox. In add/edit mode it will be user-friendly if user can see what he/she is typing. But in case of confirm password (re-type password) field behavior, it is okay what now is going on.