Fred Beeche
September 15th, 2009
The article is about users experience on iPhone’s apps based on design structure and entertainment. The author picked two new measurement unit conversion apps in which both iPhone developers recorded their design activities on the web and made the app available a week after one another. The two apps served the same purpose but with an entirely different approached on the user experience. One app was sensible while the other was playful and mechanical. The author also wrote colloquial “usability test” and exercised them with iPhone user peers. The result brought the author in conclusion that playfulness was obviously not the great focal significance in experience design. In developing apps, the author encouraged designers to give in a lot of thoughts about the context in the users-end approach and take in playfulness when assess accordingly.
This is a great review to read and for many iPhone users like myself, who is always scouting for new fun interesting apps, I find myself agreeing with the author. Some apps were so poorly design that it’s so hard to navigate the created system when the developer should have use pragmatic approach than theoretical. It’s not about how bad apps can be but sometimes, fun does not always fit the case especially when the idea of playfulness becomes one’s frustration. An app like conversion, the task is clearly straight going from point A to point B and there’s simply no room for play. This review is definitely relevant to the class and information design extracted the relationship between usability and playfulness and how they should apply on the context and delivers them to users interface. There may be plenty of ways to pass information and develop apps but keeping individual interaction in the application is a success.
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