> Are urls expected to be a good UX these days? What's the big deal?
I think they are. If I want to go back to some page I was looking at earlier, it's really nice to be able to find that page in my history. That Yahoo URL is going to be hard to differentiate if you looked at a few stocks.
It's also handy if the URL's are predictable enough that I can hit one directly rather than having to go through search. Good for me because I don't wait on page load, good for them because they don't have to serve my search request.
It's pretty low on my list of UX annoyances, but it is there.
I think they are. If I want to go back to some page I was looking at earlier, it's really nice to be able to find that page in my history. That Yahoo URL is going to be hard to differentiate if you looked at a few stocks.
It's also handy if the URL's are predictable enough that I can hit one directly rather than having to go through search. Good for me because I don't wait on page load, good for them because they don't have to serve my search request.
It's pretty low on my list of UX annoyances, but it is there.