Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter Users Will Love) Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple.
But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes’ key selling points. It’s meant to be fast and easy to use. And although there are a ton of apps for taking notes, from robust offerings like Evernote to more limited mobile apps like the Notes app that ships on the iPhone, Fetchnotes has an interesting idea about how note-taking apps should work - that is, they should work more like our own minds do. Thoughts come to us unbidden and we jot them down. That’s it. Explains Fetchnotes co-founder Alex Schiff, “task management or to-do apps force you into this rigid structure about how you’re supposed to get things done or that you’re only supposed to use this for to-do’s, whereas what we’ve done is we’ve created a very flexible application that allows you to write your own use cases,” he says.
Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: Research Findings. Learn how iPad users interact with apps and websites on their devices, and whether usability improves with time as people practice and learn new interfaces.
The design guidelines are based on 2 rounds of usability studies, conducted one year apart. We observed participants working on their own iPads to accomplish a broad variety of tasks. Articles on research findings: iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing iPad Usability: Year One What’s different between the 1st and 2nd Edition?
1st Edition: The study was conducted in 2010, immediately after the first iPad tablet became available to the public. 2nd Edition: We conducted a follow-up study in 2011 to study improvements in interface designs and changes in behavior as a result of exposure and practice. We strongly recommend that you read the 2nd edition first, because it has the newest information and is based on testing more mature iPad apps. Updated Tablet UX Research in New Report Research Reports Training Courses Articles. Deja Is Flipboard For Video (And It’s Very Slick) There’s little question that the iPad is one of the best media consumption devices ever.
It’s also been a hotbed for innovation around content recommendation, with apps like Flipboard giving you a visual way to browse an array of articles you might be interested in, using Facebook and Twitter as data sources. Today, the iPad is getting another great way to consume content, and this time it’s all about video. Meet Deja, a very nice looking application launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt. The app will go live later today on the iTunes App Store (link). Calling the app slick would be an understatement — it looks very, very cool, with nifty horizontal and vertical tiles used to navigate through the app.
Video content is pulled from a variety of channels: you can browse RSS streams, links that have been culled from the people you follow on Twitter, YouTube channels, Google video, and a select group of Deja users who curate their favorite videos. You’ve created something really beautiful. Mobile UI Patterns. iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Introduction. Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience. The usual question: Over the past 30+ years as a consultant in the field generally known as human factors engineering (aka usability engineering), I have been asked by hundreds of clients why users don’t find their company’s software engaging.
The answer to this persistent question is complex but never truly elusive. This question yields to experience and professional usability analysis. The unusual question: Surprisingly, it is a rare client indeed who asks the opposing question: why is an interface so engaging that users cannot stop interacting with it? This is a difficult question because it requires cognitive reverse engineering to determine what interaction attributes a successful interface embodies that result in a psychologically engaging user experience. This question pops up when products become massively successful based on their user experience design – think iPhone, iPad, Google Instant Search, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Kinect. Angry Birds is full of these little mysteries.