How can she say that sharing gesture on the video is intuitive? And why is this app copying Clear just for the sake of having gestures all over the place?
instead, they should have to guess what the plus sign means? plus doesn't globally mean "new tab". it doesn't even generally mean create. the only reason it is understood to mean new tab is because chrome has previously had a plus there. it seems to me a blank, vaguely tab-shaped button in line with the tabs is much more clear.
The current button doesn't really resemble a tab, so it could be hard to guess. Something like IE's approach seems more intuitive. Still, a blank button seems like an analogy, not a direct message. A plus sign at the end of a tab row definitely means that by clicking it, you are adding something to it. And what else could it be, if there are only tabs in that row?
It's funny how fanboys like John Gruber can't see past the similarities with the iPod Nano and notice this product is much more than that. Every single company takes something that already exists and makes it better. Apple and Moto are no different.
I agree. I find it very frustrating to see Gruber and others say, "Oh, it looks like a nano -- ripoff" with no examination of the actual product beyond its appearance.
Given its price point and features, I don't even think it should even be compared to the nano. It combines an MP3 player with the capabilities of fitness watches such as Nike+ Sportwatch and Garmin Forerunner, and I would say it is more of a direct competitor to the latter category.
While the market for dedicated MP3 players is dwindling, they still make a lot of sense for fitness. Yet, Nike+ is too anemic for serious fitness buffs (simplistic web site, captures relatively little data, no GPS). I've seen many fellow runners abandon Nike+ sensors for Garmin Forerunner or similar GPS-enabled products.
I don't think its a nano-killer, but I think it may serve a certain audience much better than the nano does today, and its features demonstrate a much greater sense of purpose than the nano does with its complete stagnation in 2011.
Yes, I think “Shutttr” has one ‘t’ too many. “Shuttr” would be better. They replaced an ‘e’ with a ‘t’, but they should have just removed the letter instead. Similarly-named sites “Flicker”→“Flickr” and “Forest”→“Forrst” are still readable because a letter is repeated at most twice. “Shutttr” is harder to read because English has many words with twice-repeated letters, but few or no words with thrice-repeated letters.
Reading that text on the website in light gray was kind of painful. I get that you need to differentiate some blocks of texts but those lines look like they are fading.
Oh, and maybe a lightbox with prev-next buttons? Nice work tho, best of luck.
Great advice. I'd say managing the results you get when googling your name is important as well. You could write 500 blog posts, but if the blog itself can't be found easily, what good is that for?
I'm an SEO (amongst other things). I made an 8 step process that some of my friends have used to own the search results for their names, which takes about 20 min to do. I'm making a quick start-up later this month to sell the instructions in PDF, just ask if you want to try the steps first.
