QuickTip Sundays, Usability

QuickTip Sundays: Hulu

Posted by Patrick Neeman at 9:00 am

Where’s The Search Box?

Hulu’s a pretty good site — lots of video from companies that want some kind of control over the content, which is much more than YouTube is giving them. The site’s is version 1.0, so the interface feels a bit clunky. Most importantly, where’s the search box?

I made the screen capture small without a highlight for the primary reason that if you are on a content-heavy site, that search box better be easy to find. Like Google easy to find. Like YouTube easy to find. Like News.com easy to find.

Can you find it?

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One Response to “QuickTip Sundays: Hulu”

Emmanuel Mwangi | March 1st, 2009 14:36

They have terrible search anyways. I always find it hard to find things on their site even though they have a limited amount of content and alot of meta-data about each video, whether it’s a show or a clip. Hulu search is really a whole lot of unrealized potential with a site that has a corner on it’s market and the exclusive place for alot of high quality in demand content and experiences. I think Hulu isn’t that great of a site and has sub par interfaces and a terrible overall experience that people put up with to watch the exclusive content.

Put the same content on YouTube and Hulu would be gone in a day. No that Youtube is perfect or even good overall experience but, it is still that much better than Hulu’s unintuitive, noisy, slow interface.