Comments on post “Quartz for iPhone”
Ethan Kaplan
@ethank · GM/CPO - Fender Digital
Hate to be the hater, but this is the most useless use of a conversational interface I've used. Not everything needs the latest in UI paradigms.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@ethank I'm also not convinced this is the best interface to consume news but I appreciate the creativity and willingness to try something new. I appreciate those that try to do things different from the rest, even if it's not "successful".
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Ethan Kaplan
@ethank · GM/CPO - Fender Digital
@rrhoover I appreciate creativity that is innovative, not that is following the latest du jour bandwagon in tech interfaces. It's kind of like everyone going for "flat" interfaces, even when not necessary. Just because its a thing doesn't mean it needs to be YOUR thing. There are and were a lot of things like this: activity feeds, realtime web tech, flat design, folksonomies / tag clouds, etc.
In the end I don't actually think its all that creative. It's just a reborn SmarterChild.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@ethank BRING BACK THE TAG CLOUDS!
I hear what you're saying. Trending chasing alone doesn't lead to a great product.
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Adam Kazwell
@kaz · Product manager/observer
@ethank @rrhoover had a strong negative initial reaction to this too...BUT a strong reaction in any direction is usually a good starting point for new apps :)
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Ethan Kaplan
@ethank · GM/CPO - Fender Digital
@rrhoover Usually they just serve as an example of why the trend is potentially a bad idea (see aforementioned tag clouds)
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