Bad User experience in badly designed software
Hi,
I own several Logitech products. I love the hardware, but, sadly, software has always been bad, often terribly bad, to the point that, sometimes after getting very badly frustrated, I returned the hardware.
Now, Logi Options+ is unfortunately not an exception. User experience is bad. I am saying this as a fellow designer myself. It looks nice but it is unintuitive, badly communicating with OS, and just plain confusing. I first thought that, it was a buggy first release, but soon realised that it is not the case, it is just badly designed.
Let me give an example:
I have Logi Options installed. It notified that there is Logi Options + and it will give more out of my devices. So far so good, it lures you. Then, I installed Logi Options +.
First, thing, Logi Options is still installed (I am on a Mac by the way), but unusable, it asks me to goto Logi Options +. Why then, they are both still installed? This is even a miner thing.
Then, I goto Logi Options +. First you need to add your devices. I look at the list, both my keyboard and mouse connects on bluetooth, I have the dongles, but I don't use them as I don't my ports to be occupied. So, I click bluetooth, which opens the Mac Os system bluetooth tool. I see my Logitech devices there, and I click them. Nothing happens. I get confused. I close it. I look at Logi options +. I am still in the screen which was asking to add devices. I think, hmmm... nothing added. I click Bluetooth again. Same thing. I repeat this a few times, get frustrated. And want to uninstall Logi Options + immediately: "Oh, yet again a buggy and badly designed Logi software". I can't find the way to uninstall immediately. So, I give it another chance. Same thing happens. And software doesn't give me any feedback or instructions whatsoever. After several attempts, I find out that actually, when you double click the bluetooth devices in the OS system bluetooth tool, they are added to Logi Options + but the Logi Options screen is not updated. So, I need to go back to see them added...
Please, please, study user behaviour properly, study how OS reacts to your software, map a proper user experience journey. Give proper instructions in the UI. Don't just make a pretty looking minimalist UI for minimalism's sake. It is painful, especially it it comes with beautifully designed, well functioning hardware.
Kind regards,
A fellow UX designer.
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pelaird commented
I totally agree. This software was released before it was thoroughly tested. I have noticed that the Mac OS has more problems than the Windows OS. They need to hire some Mac programmers to fix it. Hopefully they will get everything fixed at some point.