Feedback...
- The initial user experience is fantastic. You take people by the hand through the setup process and granting proper permissions. This is very well done.
- The account creation was fine but could have been lighter weight. You really only needed my email and could have sent me a password if the purpose is to just backup my stuff. I think you could push this so it's not part of the first launch experience. (while still hitting your goal of preserving memories)
- I love how you pulled in so much history from an initial load. I enjoyed my photos and that was awesome.
- I think there is too much emphasis on "editing." When I tap a photo or video I want to see it big or I want to play the video. I couldn't find an easy way to make photos big and playing a video was too many clicks. Same for maps... they don't get big either?
- Nice UI dynamics on the calendar control and a couple other nice touches like that.
- With a search icon I expect a text box to type a search. Consider a different icon for browsing/exploring by location.
- You use the wrong iOS transition in a couple places for modal dialogs. Nit.
- Once I used the service and understood how it works I wanted to add my twitter and instagram accounts to get even more into my journal. I suspect this is a natural reaction and would be a better place to offer account creation or Facebook integration (gasp).
- There's a screen that talks about "Friend Requests" but doesn't have any clear way to do that. Coming soon or nuke the field when there aren't any friend requests.
- This could crush Facebook. Not in the short term but if you create a timeline that is more personally valuable to people they will be far more likely to use it and share it with friends and family. Your timeline is already far more interesting then my "Wall."
Nice find on the iOS transition. Search isn't is a good place, but eventually we want to do real search, so the current functionality can be considered a place holder. Unfortunate, but you have to launch some time. =)
Can you tell me more about what you mean when you say "Friend Requests? We shouldn't have any friend requests.
When you open search you see a table section header that reads "Friend Requests" I don't have any friend request but the presence of the header made me go looking for this type of functionality.
Other notes:
- This morning I wanted to add a journal entry for the day. I looked for a compose button but it seems like that's only possible for things that are system created.
- I like the time-travel area and local push. That's nice and seems better then TimeHop
- I saw a couple things on my timeline that I wanted to delete. Swipe to delete didn't work, neither did tap and hold. Tapping the photo and dragging it into the lower shelf seemed really broken. (I later discovered I could swipe delete from the description, this took some exploration to discover)
Shoot me an email if you like.... graiz@raizlabs.com
- The account creation was fine but could have been lighter weight. You really only needed my email and could have sent me a password if the purpose is to just backup my stuff. I think you could push this so it's not part of the first launch experience. (while still hitting your goal of preserving memories)
- I love how you pulled in so much history from an initial load. I enjoyed my photos and that was awesome.
- I think there is too much emphasis on "editing." When I tap a photo or video I want to see it big or I want to play the video. I couldn't find an easy way to make photos big and playing a video was too many clicks. Same for maps... they don't get big either?
- Nice UI dynamics on the calendar control and a couple other nice touches like that.
- With a search icon I expect a text box to type a search. Consider a different icon for browsing/exploring by location. - You use the wrong iOS transition in a couple places for modal dialogs. Nit.
- Once I used the service and understood how it works I wanted to add my twitter and instagram accounts to get even more into my journal. I suspect this is a natural reaction and would be a better place to offer account creation or Facebook integration (gasp).
- There's a screen that talks about "Friend Requests" but doesn't have any clear way to do that. Coming soon or nuke the field when there aren't any friend requests.
- This could crush Facebook. Not in the short term but if you create a timeline that is more personally valuable to people they will be far more likely to use it and share it with friends and family. Your timeline is already far more interesting then my "Wall."
- Keep it up. Can't wait to see the updates.