Path Talk - Smart, Private Messaging

i love the onboarding, UI and sounds! Delights all through the app

@davemorin Awesome! Thank you! We actually don't work with many SF churches right now. Leighton@kindrid.com if there is anything I can help out with.

I'd actually be really interested to know what the rest of the community here thinks on this point: that having multiple apps means lack of focus where you don't give any one enough time to grow? Or good way to experiment and see what clicks? Cc @rrhoover

@syedaliahmed we have found it to be extraordinarily clarifying as a team. By focusing intensely on each individual use case it enables you to think differently and think clearly about each case. This leads to more clarity internally, and more clarity when communicating the products externally. In our case, we also saw that Messaging was our #1 fastest growing use case - so users wanted to use that part of the product all of the time. But, it was buried as a secondary feature in a drawer. This led to user frustrating, despite continued high usage. Our thought was to get out of the way of the user. If the user wants to use Messaging, and wants 3 less taps to get there, we should give it to them. Too many times I think we collectively focus on simplicity as the removal of buttons or features rather than focusing on how to simplify life for the user. By reducing clicks and reducing friction we found that we have made the life of a Path user easier, and as a result our life designing and engineering the product has become more simple as well.

@davemorin thanks for sharing, really insightful.

@syedaliahmed anytime.

@davemorin + Path team congrats on the update and new apps. Really cool direction and tons of tiny delightful elements. @__tosh thanks for mentioning Layer. Flattering!

@davemorin dude. I LOVE you the battery status feature. Favorite part of the ambient status thing, no question! This could be really, really cool!

@davemorin I love this - amazing job!

@davemorin Super excited about this! And I love how you don't leave the status and navbar black on Android, unlike 99.999% of apps. It looks gorgeous on Nexus 5.