Romain Vuillemot

        Post-doctoral Researcher
         Information Visualization,
             HCI & Web Services.

Romain Vuillemot

Nice try

January 30, 2012 by Romain

I just tried to install and use the Nostalgio iPhone application.

Here is one of the first info/notification/request you get:

 

How serisously can this application be trusted?

Reminds me of:

Weeks’ weather template

March 8, 2011 by Romain

iPhone overloaded apps folders

November 8, 2010 by Romain

What is the user supposed to do with so many apps in folders? Explore all of them to find the right app? Not using folders at all?

The difficulty is that apps are not all visible at the same time. Some are hidden within folders and not visible on the icon. Those icons are quite small,  making them difficult to recognize and their text bellow is barely readable.

Furthermore, Apps notifications are tied to folders, making hard to guess which app is concerned by updates or new messages.


My life saver is the text search interface. But then I need to know exactly what I’m looking for, and if so, no room for spelling mistakes..