Ok let me confess with you. I have become a big fan of Rakhi Sawant. Not because of her jhatkas and matkaas but beacause of the entertainment angle that she adds to the daily soap - Big Boss. Love her or hate her - but you can't avoid her. So the other day I thought, what if Rakhi Sawant was a product - a software application, a fully customised, bespoke application. Would she have succeeded on user experience? Would she have fulfilled all desired usability goals? Let's take some of the factors that we use for measuring uability of a product and find out.
For a novice user or someone who haven't heard rakhi sawant's name, her eye popping glam posters are a perfect demo of what the product is all about. A first look at her performing, and your eyes track out that the 'product' is loaded with features you always wanted. Her straight talk ( the one we saw in her cameo interview in seedhi baat & now on Big Boss) demonstrates her shallow navigation - no beating around the bush - she comes bang on! Her more than inviting clevages are the perfect breadcrumb path for you to ensure that you don't get lost. Heavily loaded, yet she doesn't take time to load herself on to your system - which in this case is your mind. Her theatertics keep users aware of the system status while she fetches data from her backend for her next jig. Are user's in control of the application? Is exiting from the application an easy job? Unfortunately not, but then the product was not designed for users to exit. Content wise, the product is again fully loaded and users don't even need any labeling on it. They can find what hey are looking for - pretty easily.
i think Rakhi Sawant as a product rocks. What's your opinion? Would love to hear.
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