Actually im not done with my last message yet. Heres a fun fact about me, im a media design student. And one of the things i am genuinely passionate about it UI and UX, user interface and user experience. And although im not an expert, i am a student after all, i want to talk about why the UI and UX of wattpad grind my gears so much!
First the UI. Almost everything is white and bright orange. I think a main 2 color color pallete works for a lot of social media because the users bring in more colors. Think of twitter, its all blue and white/black but the users all have very clear profile pictures and bring their own pictures and emojis! (Seriously why arent emojis a thing). The users help break up this color pallete by bringing their own color into it. Or think of tumblr where you can color your own profile to fit with your theme, giving your profile its own uniqueness. But wattpad actively seems to discourage this behavior. Like i mentioned, you CANNOT even use emojis!! The simplest pop of color you could add!
Oh but dont get me started of the UX. This app does not work. At all. The menu is broken, the lirbary will always glitch and reload and ive had times in the past it just got emptied. The message system isnt fast and on the website your stuck reloading to see messages! And again, no emojis. Not even pictures. You just talk in a white and bright orange void into some janky chat box. The writing feature has also been broken for literal years. I still need to do this annoying thing to simply write in my books, one i did when i joined 5 years ago where i had to tilt my phone to be able to see my work. Otherwise it's stuck on a loading screen. Titles cant easily be changed or wattpad ignores the change. Chapters cant be seen. Your edits wont appear till like a day later.
And there's so much more to this! Wattpad isnt user friendly. It has a horrible UI and a much worse UX.
