I dunno. It’s kinda crummy in some ways. Maybe because I’m not a streets ahead kid with friends to teach me all the ways of the Instagram? Off the top of my head:
- you’re supposed to know that various edge swipes get you things
- I have two feeds apparently? There’s the home page and the middle bottom button
- you can’t do most things to an existing video, you must record it live, in Instagram, for most of the effects (eg. my kids did a hilarious Christmas morning dance and I realized it would be a good Boomerang)
- I’ve had multiple comedians DM me and then say “sorry I meant to reply to the comment!”
- beware that adding comments to those videos at the top are actually DMs
- almost every video cuts off 1 second early
- almost every video has been cropped to fit the aesthetics of my tall screen so I can’t even read the
the same reason that chrome and firefox look like each other way more than they did originally
the same reason GNU/Linux distributions like Xandros used to mimic Windows XP
the same reason Microsoft Windows originally looked a lot like MacOS
the same reason MacOS looked a lot like what was going on in PARC before them
because users come to your platform with expectations and perceived affordances, and if you can get them to switch others will too
ie
if your UI isn't defined by lawyers, it will adapt to the psychological models that actually live in the heads of your users if you're developing it properly