From login ,UI, to ease of actually submitting a query, why is the OpenAI website so bad given it is the hottest startup on earth and ycombinator companies seem to prioritize quality design and UIs (such as ABNB). This company can hire the best designers on the planet and yet the page is horrid. Is this on purpoise bc demand is so extreme they are throttling with a horrid interface or what?
Is it? I much prefer the ChatGPT UI over the Gemini one which mangles any code you input.<p>OpenAI need to add text search over your chat history - your chat history becomes hard to manage very quickly.
There's hardly any specific criticism here. I'll give my perspective for why I disagree.<p>They keep me logged in between sessions unless I clear cookies, so when I navigate to chatgpt I go straight to a new chat. There are zero steps for me to get where I want to go. The side nav is simple, shows me a history of chats which is all I care about. Copying code is easy. The layout works well on mobile as well as desktop.
they are focused on models. If the model is the best, the UX wont matter. If the model is 2nd best, the best UX in the world won't make up for it.
Interesting, I've greatly enjoyed it. And often note how for instance Microsoft's implementation is much poorer design as well as Google's implementation of their chat bot. While always room for improvement, haven't heard any previous significant discussions about ChatGPT being poor design. Might be helpful if you elaborated on what about the design you particular do not like?
One more vote for ChatGPT’s simple and intuitive UI. I personally find most of modern web design over the top, with bare minimum information, just fluff.<p>I guess it depends on your target market, average consumer probably is easier to influence with certain designs and average technical user probably prefers less clutter on their tools.
"Bad" and "horrid" are unactionable, and the Airbnb comparison makes no sense. Do you have any useful criticism?<p>It's rudimentary, yes. It sure seems like it'd be easy to enable users to easily copy and save chats, for example.
> ycombinator companies seem to prioritize quality design and UIs<p>Any sort of B2C org will need to focus on improving a UX experience. Many B2B orgs don't need to do this. openai certainly doesn't at this stage. What would be the point? Getting even more people signed up and using it? They've got nothing to prove at this point with respect to getting signups and revenue.
What infuriates me is that it scrolls while generating an answer and the text keeps shifting while I'm trying to read at the same time.<p>Doesn't look like a hard problem to solve, it should just keep the viewport fixed. Am I the only one bothered by that?