Post(s) tagged with "apps"

Any modal message—full-screen or alert—that interrupts user flow to ask them to download your app suffers from #doorslam #ux antipattern.

Aral Balkan

(h/t I Don’t Want Your Fucking App)

Source: idontwantyourfuckingapp

13 May 2013 5 Permalink
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Bijan Sabet: Which app do you miss the most? (continued) ⇢

bijan:

The other day I tweeted, “which failed startup’s app do you miss the most?”

I got a number of interesting responses.

One that touched my heart was Andy Weissmann’s response:

But by far, the most popular…

The apps I miss the most are the original Plazes and the original Brightkite.

15 April 2012 9 bijan Permalink
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One Million Podio Apps Installed

A great milestone for work media vendor Podio: its users have installed one million Podio apps.

Podio supports the creation of data-oriented ‘apps’, such as a customer database, which can support business processes. Podio also supports an app store where thousands of predefined apps can be reused.

I think this is a sign of the growing maturation of social tools in the enterprise, as well as the acceptance of Podio’s quite unique approach to creating and sharing business process-oriented apps.

21 March 2012 1 Permalink
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Responsive Web Design, Mobile First, and the Future of Content Consumption - Lindsey Kirkbride ⇢

Lindsay Kirkbride

The number of people perusing the web on mobile devices is growing at an incredible rate. Ericsson, the mobile handset company, reported that from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011 mobile traffic more than doubled. The number of users in the US alone who use the internet via a mobile device grew 19% over the past year (via Gigaom). The Times of India recently reported that the number of mobile phones in the United Kingdom is now greater than the number of people there; not only that, but 27% of the adult population in Britain now uses a smartphone.

Kirkbride goes on to make a case for ‘responsive web design’ — meaning basically what others call ‘fluid web design’ — so that mobile devices can have a first class experience in browsers.

The real future, though, is apps: the browser will soon be like using Terminal on Mac OS X. You’ll only do that when no app exists for waht you want.

9 November 2011 4 upstreamed Permalink
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thenextweb: Explore photos being shared around the world on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and PicPlz via a map in near real-time. When you’re zoomed out, you’ll see only the latest images being shared, and as you zoom further in to a particular area you’ll see more images from a longer time period. (via Teleportd: Search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more)

thenextweb:

Explore photos being shared around the world on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and PicPlz via a map in near real-time. When you’re zoomed out, you’ll see only the latest images being shared, and as you zoom further in to a particular area you’ll see more images from a longer time period. (via Teleportd: Search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more)

10 October 2011 16 thenextweb Permalink
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Drumbi ⇢

thenextweb:

Irvine, CA-based startup Drumbi is today launching its new iPhone and Android app that wants to revolutionize the phone call. With Drumbi you’re now able to specify the topic of a phone call, as well as the location from which you’re calling before you place it. You can also designate the urgency of your call, so that when the recipient answers they’re well aware of the context and other relevant information you would have had to explain anyway. (via Drumbi: Reinventing phone calls by giving them a subject line - TNW Apps)

I like the notion of contextualizing phone calls with metadata, and tying that to the life stream.

13 September 2011 112 thenextweb Permalink
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thenextweb: If you happen to be in London or New York, and looking for a good place to settle down and work for a while, this Web app should help you do just that. Let’s Meet and Work is the brainchild of Alasdair Monk, a user interface designer and app developer.  (via Let’s meet and work: Places to work in London & New York - TNW Apps)

thenextweb:

If you happen to be in London or New York, and looking for a good place to settle down and work for a while, this Web app should help you do just that.

Let’s Meet and Work is the brainchild of Alasdair Monk, a user interface designer and app developer.

 (via Let’s meet and work: Places to work in London & New York - TNW Apps)

30 August 2011 119 thenextweb Permalink
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Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble - Brandon Watson ⇢

Watson debugs Scoble’s argument that developers should be building for Android tablets, and winds up back at the start: can developers make any money there? Not clear, Robert.

5 March 2011 11 Permalink
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