I sent you an email earlier thru your site but it boils down to these few points (iOS version, on iPhone 5)
tl;dr Love the great design! Questionable usability due to animations; needs work before I keep it on my phone.
- Beautiful UI and subtle clean design choices. Very pleasing design!
- Animations need work. Animations are way too slow. Get out of the way of the user and let them get to what they want. If I am ever waiting for the UI to do something, you've done this wrong. Try to keep all transitions < 0.4s if possible.
For example: When in the home screen, hit the search bar. The items that scroll up and push the search to the top: WAY too slow.
Another example: Tapping an item to open it. The photo rises to the top, then the thumbnails come down. Why can't this all happen at once? Another too slow, get to the point moment.
- Google+ style "zoom out" of new items: Visually distracting. After about ten seconds, I just want to turn it off.
- While "zooming out" of those items are happening, the user interaction is disabled so I can't actually stop the scrolling. Try this: Scroll the table down, then as items are animating in, put your thumb down. The scrolling doesn't stop.
tl;dr Love the great design! Questionable usability due to animations; needs work before I keep it on my phone.
- Beautiful UI and subtle clean design choices. Very pleasing design!
- Animations need work. Animations are way too slow. Get out of the way of the user and let them get to what they want. If I am ever waiting for the UI to do something, you've done this wrong. Try to keep all transitions < 0.4s if possible.
For example: When in the home screen, hit the search bar. The items that scroll up and push the search to the top: WAY too slow.
Another example: Tapping an item to open it. The photo rises to the top, then the thumbnails come down. Why can't this all happen at once? Another too slow, get to the point moment.
- Google+ style "zoom out" of new items: Visually distracting. After about ten seconds, I just want to turn it off.
- While "zooming out" of those items are happening, the user interaction is disabled so I can't actually stop the scrolling. Try this: Scroll the table down, then as items are animating in, put your thumb down. The scrolling doesn't stop.