Looks great. I have some feedback about the copy on your site.
1) Copy should answer the big question-- how is this different than Evernote and other similar apps?
2) Consider shorter & more direct sentences to succinctly explain what the app is for.
Congrats on your launch!
@allisonveronica Thanks!
1. I'm a huge Evernote fan. I use it for tons of different tasks but not for making lists, even though technically, I could. While Evernote has a really robust API and tons of partners it's not built to make media-rich, sharable, interactive lists. I think that if you're an avid Evernote user the differences in both purpose and functionality between Evernote and Socialist will be clear.
2. Are you referring to our "heady" website? I agree. Sometimes that's challenging. There's so much one wants to say about one's baby! Point taken.
@paulgeller Cool. I think it just needs to be communicated as much as possible how this is different than whatever janky way you're currently keeping lists of things ( you know what I mean)?
My advice for writing copy on your site is to think of the first 2-3 questions people ask you about the product when you first explain to them what it is, then work backwards from there when explaining the features, etc.
See if you can challenge yourself to cut what you're saying in half. You'd be surprised at the results.
@BelleBCooper Thanks! We should definitely chat sometime and exchange notes :) I just followed you on Twitter.
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Ballsy choice on the name and color scheme, comrade.
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I've been using for a bit (follow me if you like real Chicago style pizza). Great design, good product. Was initially skeptical before downloading but have been really won over.
Would love if like Wisely it could take some of my data and help me automate some of my lists, @paulgeller.
Thanks for all the love everyone. @SoleneMa, point taken. We could have limited it a little bit more for the launch but we're going to see what resonates with the users.
@paulgeller Congrats on a successful launch!
Some initial thoughts (very similar to @SoleneMa):
Cover photos should be a part of the "Create New List" flow rather than in the "Edit" menu since the design relies heavily on the cover photo in various feeds. Similarly, adding a profile pic should be a part of the the create account flow. Right now a beautiful design is not living up to its full potential because of default avatars and backgrounds scattered throughout. A little more friction, but worth it IMO. Another idea would be to programmatically pull a photo from the list/venue depending on the input source.
The actions that can be taken on any given list are not totally clear. I was confused at first that the Document Icon and the Subscribe text were the same action. Also its still not clear to me what the pin does. The share and heart icons are pretty standard UI elements but coupled with the uncertainty of the other icons theres a pretty heavy cognitive load trying to figure out what each button does and if they are mutually exclusive.
This is a personal preference, but I think this app lends itself nicely to a tabbed interface rather than a drawer/hamburger. There are only 4 elements behind the drawer. It requires two taps to navigate to any new element and I often forget that they are back there. The explore feature has a lot of potential, and I would visit it more often if it were at the bottom.
Some smaller nitpicks:
-Liking a list with 0 likes is incrementing to 2 then tapping a second time decrements to 1. Force quitting the app and relaunching goes back to 0. (I'm on iOS 8 Beta 4, so forgive me if it has to do with that).
-The "Find and Invite Friends" screen secondary text says "Find you Facebook friends" and "Find you Twitter friends" rather than "Find your Facebook friends" and "Find your Twitter friends"
Overall I was really impressed and personally think it will be a useful app. One of its strengths is that it works just fine in single player mode, but is strengthened by network effects (similar mechanics to Pinterest: everyone creating their own personal boards creates value for the network). Well done and send my congrats to your team!
@frankiewarren wow wow wow! Thanks for taking the time to write all of that. I'm going to respond to each paragraph.
1) You are 100% right. I'm going to see if we can get that done in 1.0.3
2) Pin, pins it to your sidebar for quick access! I can see how the subscribe/document thing could be confusing. Maybe we will enclose them in their own outline to make that easier to understand.
3) I think now that you know whats up with Pins you might change your mind about the usefulness of the drawer. Maybe not though. Our plan is to build out the tabbed interface so i think we are on the same page anyway.
4) Typos and bugs logged! Thank you!
Thank you. I think that if those are your biggest complaints, you'll be happy with upcoming releases.
This reminds me of an app called Well for iOS by Jiraffe that I used to use a lot. It was for good-looking private and collaborative lists, but the integrations in Socialist make it one-up already. I was sad that Well got abandoned, and hope Socialist takes off!
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