Or would it? I found myself pondering the newest of my potential creations the other day, so last night I decided to do some searching for potential web site names. I figured whatever I call it I want it to tie into the URL somehow, for both search optimization and just common sense. I didn’t find anything that was actually available (surprise surprise eh?) so I guess its back to the drawing board, but I have to wonder what the importance of the name really is…
Than this morning I was searching for Iphone Apps because that seems to be my newest obsession. I noticed something remarkable… I was selecting applications I wanted to investigate into further based purely on the applications Icon, and mostly the apps name. I know the old saying goes do not judge a book by its cover which I found to be quite remarkable that I would be doing such a thing, and I have to wonder how many millions of people are like that as well…
Someone once told me that it really doesn’t matter what your application does, or if it even works on release date but rather how it looks to the user, and their first impressions. I hate to admit it, but I think this is true too! Countless websites I’ve closed because I couldn’t read the text because of coloring, or because there was ads everywhere, or for various other non-technical reasons… And I’m a Developer!
It is a truly sad thing to realize that every line of code I write means nothing to the average user if they don’t like the way my application looks at first glance, that something so trivial as the wrong Icon choice can turn someone away from what may be beautiful code and the following beautiful functionality.
I cannot help but wonder if this is what has made Google so popular among people. Take a look at Google versus Yahoo! Google has nothing but a clean interface, no BS graphics, and a text box to search with. Yahoo! Has shit going in every which direction and your eyes actually have to search the page to find the text box to start typing in… Well, at least Microsoft got it right this time with Bing…