Reflection point: Patterns and Flows

With Ultimate Guitar it’s very important to be able to receive tab as quickly as possible. The site is mainly used for their tabs, despite offering news and blogs. The flow has to be simple and easy to use for any user, regardless of if they are a new user or a regular user. They offer many opportunities to find tab and offer some of the most popular types of apps on their homepage. However most musicians are looking for a very specific type of tab. This is why their search function was really necessary.

Most user will go right to the top of the nav bar and enter their song into the search bar. This is the most convenient way to search for the song. Otherwise you could go through the tabs page to search. It was wise for Ultimate Guitar to use the nav bar to include the search bar as one of the main utilities. After you type in your song it will take you to the next page which shows all of the results.

This is the page that a user see’s directly when they enter their song into the search bar. It sorts the songs by artist and rating. I believe that this is a great search function because it doesn’t give any vague results. It gives the user exactly what they need and what they’re searching for. This makes the usability very intuitive and reliable. When you search for a song you can guarentee that you’ll find the song that you need. After you use your search function it takes you directly to the song you’re looking for.

To find the song that you are looking for only takes the user three easy steps. This site is very intuitive and the navigation is very simple. From using the search bar thats connected to the nav bar to finding the exact song that you want, is very simple. Ultimate Guitar understands the needs for their users, they know that most users want to get directly to the song they want. They made their site to use as easy as possible. There’s no sign-in requirements or registration. Any user can get directly to the song that they want only using three steps.