Re:Ask HN: Rate my iPhone app - Full version promo codes to ...
by rufo on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @10:29AM
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I sincerely apologize for not getting back to you sooner, my week was a bit crazy towards the end of last week and I took a four day weekend this past week.
My very, very initial impression is that it's an app I'm initially interested in, but some of your UI choices are rather odd - a few that stood out to me:
* Unlike every other app on the iPhone, your app does a card flip whenever you tap on a tab. For something I'd like to be able to flip through quickly, it just bogs things down.
* Same thing with your slides - why are they half the speed of everything else?
* You have a button for projects at the bottom. You also have a button for projects on the front page. They initially appear to go to the same place. Why is this duplicated?
* Why are you using ISO dates instead of my locale's preferred date format? As a programmer it doesn't bug me that much, but it is different than every other app on the iPhone.
* On the locations screen, why do you have plus and minus buttons? There are universally recognized gestures already used on the iPhone for zooming in a Google map area.
I agree with a lot of what DeusExMachina wrote, too.
To sum up: As somebody that's tried to use Omnifocus I could try to use something a bit simpler, but your app's interface is too non-standard and weird feeling - and the constant slow transitions would drive me batty. Please don't take personal offense (you've done far more than I have on the iPhone), but I think you need to rethink your UI a bit to make it faster to get around and take more advantage of standard iPhone UI elements.
My very, very initial impression is that it's an app I'm initially interested in, but some of your UI choices are rather odd - a few that stood out to me:
* Unlike every other app on the iPhone, your app does a card flip whenever you tap on a tab. For something I'd like to be able to flip through quickly, it just bogs things down.
* Same thing with your slides - why are they half the speed of everything else?
* You have a button for projects at the bottom. You also have a button for projects on the front page. They initially appear to go to the same place. Why is this duplicated?
* Why are you using ISO dates instead of my locale's preferred date format? As a programmer it doesn't bug me that much, but it is different than every other app on the iPhone.
* On the locations screen, why do you have plus and minus buttons? There are universally recognized gestures already used on the iPhone for zooming in a Google map area.
I agree with a lot of what DeusExMachina wrote, too.
To sum up: As somebody that's tried to use Omnifocus I could try to use something a bit simpler, but your app's interface is too non-standard and weird feeling - and the constant slow transitions would drive me batty. Please don't take personal offense (you've done far more than I have on the iPhone), but I think you need to rethink your UI a bit to make it faster to get around and take more advantage of standard iPhone UI elements.