so it turns out I remember the icons for apps, not because of their designs, but because of their locations.
After “organizing” the icons into stacks, I can’t find anything. Then I have to use the icons again. I used to be able to start apps without really looking at the phone.
The icons are secondary, I guess.
Reference: UXMyths: http://uxmyths.com/post/715009009/myth-icons-enhance-usability
http://ondrejka.net/stupid/2010/06/27/1244-doomed-to-repeat.html
What would help is if Amazon or Apple made their apps location aware and created a revenue sharing program for small bookstores. Increased ebook awareness in exchange for rewarding the curators. This would work even better if more ebook readers offered subscription and recurring revenue purchase options, so the local book store could sell higher value packages than a single book, making more significant rev shares possible.
Actually, that can apply to anything! Is this the future of the record store as well? I’m sick of all these music discovery websites.
Copy is part of UX too. I have no idea what Threadbox does. Here’s a screenshot.
I’m sure I could learn by reading all that copy, but I gave up after two seconds of staring at all that text, and the one-line summary at the top is way too vague and meaningless.
I think it’s supposed to help me manage messaging, but why do I care? How is it better? Why should I try it? The copy should anticipate questions like these instead of harping on about specific features.
In short, don’t tell me about the tool, tell me how the tool helps me.
It’s not unlike the site I work on for a living, sadly. Gotta work on that.