Both Shuffle People and Chatroulette have tweeked their user interface so that you can play with the screens either horizontally or vertically. What benefits does this bring to the users?
We found that people want to be able to customize their experience and use it for creating videos and posting screenshots. The most notorious and popular industry blog is CHATROULOLZ which documents user experiences by allowing people from around the world to submit and post photos of their experiences on Chatroulette, ShufflePeople and Omegle. This audience participation was the driving force behind Chatroulette’s virality. Making the user interface customizable allows users greater control for documenting their experiences on the sites as they take screenshots and post videos across the web.
No doubt that these sites will need to morph even more dramatically as time continues to pass. The demise of MySpace illustrates what happens to sites that do not mature with time. Users ache for change, updates and tweaks to experience and interface design. Although Facebook users complained, passed around petitions and begged Facebook developers to stop planned changes to the site, the proof is in the pudding. Facebook only saw positive results as they made changes to the interface. This tells us that to stay current and popular you have to give your community new ways to interact and remain engaged.
We’ve mentioned this before and will continue to follow the changes that occur to Chatroulette, Shufflepeople and Omegle.
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