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by capableweb 1740 days ago
First time I hear purposefully degrading the UX being excused by it being A/B testing. You know it's disliked but still you do it?

The world is going crazy

2 comments

Have you ever worked on multivariate tests?

Testing is how you learn and quantify how much something is disliked, or used, or leads to conversions. This is the perfect fit.

I prefer the 1-column layout (user since it was rapgenius.com). If they got angry emails from their users about their UX, and they decided to set up a test to improve it, that's not in the spirit of degrading the UX.

Maybe they know because of the A/B test? Seems like it could be a good idea and make the layout easier to use on mobile. I don't find it THAT bad on desktop, although on the side is better.