Makeoverfor iPhone app

Main interest

• Questions

• Answers

• Search

User habits

• For frequent consumer visitors– Leisure lazy read

• Not more than 45 minutes

• For frequent producer visitors– Reply to comments and questions

– Control statistics

• For occasional visitors – Quick find

– Follow the answers

Design Constraints

• Media

– Limited screen real estate

• Users

– Short attention span

• Environment

– Distracting

Verdict

Current design

distracts the reader from

questions

Current weaknesses

• Crammed home page

– Secondary information brought to foreground

– Rarely used functions take up space

• Minimal use of multi-touch gestures

Design Decisions

• Hide information of the second and third level of interest

– Cropped answers

– Non-top answers

– Author of the answer

– Voters even if they are friends

Design Decisions

• Introduce multi-touch gestures

– Pinch in/out to

• open/close auxiliary information about an answer

• open/close main menu from anywhere in the app

– Circular moves to move between answers

– Hold and pan up/down to upvote or downvote

– Four finger “tap” to call a keyboard and initiate search

Redesign Concept

Top

AnswerYour

answerQuestion

Info

About

Author

home screen

Swipe Right

Info

About

AuthorQuestion

Your

answer

top answer screen

Top

Answer

Swipe Right

Top

AnswerQuestion

Your

answer

author info

Info

About

Author

Question -> Answer

Answer-> Details

Anywhere-> Main Menu

Answer A -> Answer B

A B