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Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by beatboxrevival on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:51PM (#8233533)
Some serious usability issues with anti-patterns.

- Why navigation bar on bottom of screen?

- Sometimes close is in left, sometimes on bottom. Pick one.

- Overusing the blurred background pattern. Use it sparingly to provide context, or layering.

- 3 dots icon is sharing?

- No search for finding activities

- When you tap a sport, it spawns multiple view controllers. Leads to crashing the app.

Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by rymohr on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:05PM (#8233657)
I personally like the navigation bar at the bottom. It's a natural resting place for your thumb and a good call if this is one of the main menus.

I like the consistent use of blurred backgrounds too. However on the sports scroll I'd wait until the scroll has settled to change the background image -- when you're scrolling quickly through the list it can cause the app to stutter.

Great work overall! Your app is beautiful.

Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by matmik on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:14PM (#8233717)
Thanks a bunch! We really like the bottom placement for navigation as well as it's a small hassle to always reach the very top to go to a different section.

You're 100% right on the sports scroller. Will improve this greatly in the future and try to get it really silky smooth. Actually using Path's FastImageCache in today's version. https://github.com/path/FastImageCache

Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by matmik on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:06PM (#8233664)
Good feedback, thank you! This is only our first version, and will absolutely take this back to the team.
Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by easytiger on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @03:12PM (#8234132)
another major anti pattern being the use of an app excluding anyone on a computer