quora iphone app grand makerover concept
DESCRIPTION
This presentation explains the UX and design decisions I've made while redesigning the iphone app for Quora.TRANSCRIPT
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