Month: March 2016

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Will update today~

I found this app “Quest: Level Up Your Life” as a new way that helps you organize your daily agenda or to-do list ( like Reminder on iPhone, but in a much more appealing way).  

We often find normal To- Do lists boring and a waste of time. But this app takes the mechanic from video game as the motivation, instead of regular progress bar. This way is more interested and attached (or even addicted) to organize your to-do list. 

from link to App Store

Updated design guideline

Verge article

App Map

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UI Comps

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Paper Prototype – User Testing In Class

After I did the paper prototype for apple tv..

• It is more real and helpful to have the user testing on the full-scale paper prototype. Because the size really does matter for users to have a try, and the design could be very different from the version on the phone. It does make more sense for users to sit in a little far distance to have the experience.
• One of my users asked me about if the line tracking disappears after the waiting time, and what will happen if customers do not go to that restaurant. Is it going to expire or send the message to customers phone?
• People think QR code is a fancy way to get confirmation, but they concerned about how to get the QR code through message on their phones. Or maybe just a simple text is fine, and show the message when they get there.
• Some people think the button “Restline” is not a common word for people to understand, so they got confused by that. Maybe “add to my waiting list”?
• Also, one of my users suggest that customers can log in through restaurant info view directly in stead of a whole different view for they to log in.

I have used lots of alternative email apps and I found CloudMagic is very powerful and user friendly no matter in functions or visuals. It has clear and simple designs, ux flows. It works on different platforms like Mac, iOS, Android. CloudMagic can share team contacts, as well as integrating with other productivity apps such as keynote, Outlook notebook. Other very useful function is it allows you to get and reply Gmail emails in mainland China where we all know that gmail is blocked.

But after using it for a very long time, I found that iPhone version Cloud Magic doesn’t support Chinese language reply. You can get emails in Chinese, but you can only type in English when you reply it on your phone. But for non-Chinese speakers, it didn’t really matter. But once I need to translate some emails into Chinese and send it back, then I found I can’t type in Chinese on my phone app.

I started to discover another email app: Spark. It is featured in Smart Inbox, which can filter your emails into different categorizes, and this app allows Chinese replies on phone. Another feature is Snooze and Task, you can put your to do list and set notification time to remind you. It is very customizable, widgets and swipes can be personalized to match user’s work flow.

Those are two email apps that I recommend to try if you are looking for alternatives.

 

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Audulus and Samplr are two sound production apps with which I’ve increasingly spent time lately. Audulus presents an interactive, modular—or patcher—sound synthesis environment that recalls classic analogue sound synthesis techniques and methods. I absolutely love the interface as it lends itself to both composition and performance. The latter app is unlike anything else I’ve seen presented on mobile; it recalls only a few sampler patches that I’ve seen utilized with Max and Ableton Live environments. Like Audulus, Samplr features an intuitive, user-friendly and deeply engaging interface. As such, it also lends itself to both composition and performance.

Hey everyone,

Here is my mobile media apple tv app wireframe and slides.