preface

The extension installation process is not introduced, interested partners can click here to install their own experience.

This is a report of my hardcore experience after 4 days of use.

The reason why it is not called evaluation report, but user experience report is that I am not a product manager or interaction designer after all. Many of my ideas and opinions are subjective, and they are from the perspective of personal user experience rather than professional one. Therefore, it is more appropriate to call it user experience than evaluation.

Then why is there a hardcore? This is because I have seen some users’ evaluation summary, and found that many suggestions are neither painful nor painful, and have not explored the maximum value of this plug-in. However, I have been working for more than 10 years, during which I have developed some personal commercial products, and the sales volume is quite good. I think I have some unique opinions in making products. Of course, I don’t want to go too far. Simply speaking, if we want to make this product surpass similar competitive products, according to my ability, there is still a lot of room for optimization. At present, it can only be said that it can be used, but it has not been used to the extent.

Nonsense not to say, on the experience report ~

Experience with

In order to reduce unnecessary text description, the experience summary will not highlight the advantages of a product if the advantages of the user can not find, it is either a hidden feature entrance, or the novice guide is not properly.

search

Pain points

It offers quick access to search on eight platforms, but is that really enough? Maybe not enough. So what? Bai.

But considering the Chrome extension in the domestic status quo, update the extension means that most of the developers can’t science and the Internet are need to install the expansion pack, if the update frequently, who is willing to do, how much less this eight built-in platform I am not used to, the future of increasingly more quick search, there are several rows of ICONS, only think all have a headache.

Is there any better experience?

advice

Of course, Chrome’s search engine configuration provides the best solution, which is to leave the configuration to the user.

In Chrome address bar enter Chrome: / / Settings/searchEngines will enter the following interface:

As you can see, in addition to the default search engines, there are other search engines you can add freely:

Because the quick search entry function itself does not have too much technical content, is to replace the search keywords in the URL. In this way, users are free to expand the search platform to create a faster search that suits them better.

Super search

Pain points

By typing the shortcut key “JJ”, you can invoke a floating search box that functions almost exactly as the search function on the page.

Almost, because I spent a lot of time thinking about what a “hot word” meant in my Settings, and it suddenly occurred to me that you could type in a hot word in super Search and call a shortcut tool.

advice

I’m sure the product manager will have a better idea of what the final product will look like, because I didn’t even respond when I clicked the Settings button, and my gut tells me that the supersearch is probably still a work in progress.

But would THAT make me forgive? Of course not. Let me tell you what supersearch is supposed to do.

First of all, back to the pain point, the search function is nothing more than quickly open the search results PAGE I want, such a function to solve a single demand, how to make the default search page and super search are different? I wonder if we can provide an aggregated search function.

Aggregated search is all about aggregating results from multiple platforms, but it’s a bit difficult to implement in a Chrome extension. The next best thing to do is to use iframes, for example, to put the search links from each platform into one IFrame, and then display multiple Iframes on the page simultaneously, either side by side or in the form of TAB switching. No, when I hit Enter to search, I can open multiple search pages at once, which is also an aggregated search.

Of course, my personal appeal is to abolish super search, can keep jj shortcut key, press JJ, the cursor automatically activated to the search bar on the page, this is enough, hot words function in the default search bar can not do? I believe the Nuggets’ fellow developers can do it.

After 2 days of use (3rd day of use), I suddenly realized that jj shortcut can trigger on any TAB page. It’s a bit of a surprise, but it’s a sore point, nuggets product managers, you guys are so confident in your feature that you don’t even have a brief introduction to it, and I just found out about it because of a misoperation.

So how many features are there that I don’t know about and that the plugin doesn’t say? I’m really curious.

Quick navigation

Pain points

At the bottom of the search bar is the shortcut navigation, but this function is really a bit weak, weak and weak, and favorites, why don’t I go to the page through favorites? Of course, one could argue that not everyone likes bookmarking common addresses. The next thing I want to say is that this shortcut navigation configuration interface is a nightmare for me 10 years ago when I had to manually enter the URL and name to add favorites.

advice

Now that you have the ability to customize your navigation, is there a better way to interact? There must be, and the answer is in the puzzle, which is the following function. Completely add a “Add shortcut navigation” entry here, click on the page you visit, and it will automatically add to the shortcut navigation, think about it, is not more smooth interaction.

Information flow (left)

The left side provides the information flow of articles in the nuggets site. There are not too many optimization suggestions, and it basically smoothen my reading habit of visiting the website to find articles.

advice

It would be nice to add a “read later” feature, although Chrome does have a “read later” feature, but you have to visit the page before you can do it.

I was wondering if there could be a “read later” button in the list that could be added with one click. When I’m on the “hot” option, the document data for each list is not fixed, and sometimes WHEN I open a new TAB, THERE are other things I need to do, but I might see an article title I’m interested in. At this point I had to interrupt what I was doing, open the article, bookmark it or add it to read later, and then move on.

Then there is a small bug, is the “latest” in the article, can always spawn a year ago, ah this?

Today (day 4) I found this bug fixed, I don’t know when I can send this article, I hope the pain points and suggestions in this article can still be effective on that day, Amitabha Buddha.

Information flow (middle)

I think the information in the middle area is industry information flow, because by switching the top navigation bar to select different industry fields, the contents displayed are different

Pain points

Unable to configure, and search switching platform, here the information flow of different platforms is not free configuration, for example, under the “design”, can switch only these sites.

advice

I don’t know if anyone in the Internet industry knows what RSS is, but it would be great if this module could add a custom RSS site in addition to the default sites. I even thought that I would get excited about this feature, because there would be no need to install an RSS reader. You don’t have to go to every website to read the latest articles, you can just browse through a browser’s welcome page.

Information Flow (right)

Pain points

Fast tools are not fast, because the tools provided are too few, except notes is a native tool, the use frequency of the other four is really too low, and there is no high-frequency use of tools in development.

advice

The nuggets, as a community of developers, provide quick tools that must be closely related to the development work. Which tools are closely related? I believe that you must have visited or used some online toolkit sites, such as “encoding conversion”, “encryption and decryption”, “unit conversion”, “regular generation” and so on.

Because this kind of tool is very miscellaneous, when used is also temporary to search, so can use them to enrich the “quick tool” module, whether it is native implementation, or through iframe access to the chain, the technical difficulty is not complex.

When the number of tools provided is large, you can also configure the display of the first-screen tools freely, put the commonly used tools on the first screen, and fold the rest. At the same time, super search in the hot word function to get the most rapid experience. Imagine me typing JJ on the keyboard to invoke super search, and then typing SJC from hundreds of shortcut apps to quickly find the “timestamp” tool. It’s so smooth and doesn’t even require a mouse.

conclusion

As a browser plug-in with version number 0.7.4 (it has not reached the first official version), it can satisfy most of my daily brushes.

Of course, if each of the features mentioned above can be optimized or expanded, I believe that the use experience will be better, looking forward to an official version, to see how much change from the current version.