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Super scattered thoughts incoming
Guess it depends on your target audience, the best app is the one that your users want to use (or have to use if you're into that kind of thing).
I wish the video had some specific walkthroughs of using multiple large features in a super app, like the super app version of their example of opening 4+ apps to get a friends coffee. Is it faster / more seamless? I don't doubt that it is or could be, I just haven't used any of the super apps.
Feels like a vim vs emacs situation. I love vim, it's fast and has all the text editing tools I need, but emacs ships with an irc client and tetris which is dope.
Modern American app and web design is surprisingly meh. The ideal is nice (responsive to various screen sizes, accessible) , but most sites fail all over the place (I've never worked with anyone who knows accessibility well, myself included). Plus, there is so much dead, empty space on desktop sites. Not sure that hyper cluttered would be good for new users or my ADHD, but I can see the appeal.
Good luck with your project! Mind if I ask what it is?
Something that people yake for granted is that while some UI patterns are more intuitive and sensible than others, the larger picture which is formed when countless such patterns are stiched together usually relies on cultural inertia to be generally accessible. Some softwares are revolutionary in their design but most have to stick within a narrow window of what other popular softwares are doing. GNOME and KDE for example took a lot of cues from Windows and Mac were doing over the years. This is mostly because Microshit and Apple are monopolistic companies with a deep market reach and deviating drastically from the norms set by them would dissuade a lot of potential newcomers.
China's stuff--websites and apps--looks different because they were not tethered to norms set by the Western tech industries since they did not or could not cater to the Chinese market. I don't mean to say it is better or worse because of that. But it's good that this variety exists.
Totally agreed about that. It's called the Principle of Least Surprise for a reason. Users don't want to learn your software, they just want to achieve their goal in an easy way. Inertia and convention guide all that.
true 'nuff