reprogramming myself

Path, Love & Hate

I love Path app. I admit first version didn’t call me at all, actually I uninstalled after just few minutes. But this version 2 is simple yet powerful, with the basic social needs all together. I love its basic user interface, cool Add (+) menu, having to slide between 3 main pages, and some other little subtleties which improve user experience (that analog clock is awesome). However none of my previous comments will help improve the app, so I decided to write some lines on the few things that would make it more usable (or less misleading).

• Links inside comments are not clickable and cannot be copied. Text can’t be copied either.
• When you look for friend and add them, you dont know what you are accepting nor who will be seeing what. Are you accepting that they see your stream or that you will see theirs? If it’s the former, then there’s an issue here (why would someone want to see streams from people that just invited you?). If it’s the latter, there’s no way to “follow” someone without them accepting you but then both are following each other. Honestly, following directions should be easier to understand.
• Oh, and friendship invites should be on your activity screen.
• When you receive an email notification from someone inviting you to share your paths, there is no link to that person’s path, just an invitation to download the app. Senseless, who’s this Xavi below in the picture? No way to know.
  
• When you comment on someone else’s photo and later someone else comments on the same image, the notification you receive says something like “hey, x commented on YOUR photo”. Misleading and wrong, see yourself (the image below and comments are real, I just cut part of the image to make it more clear):
  
  
  
  On the image above from Ale Muñoz, I added a comment and waited for a reply. When I got the notification on my iPhone notification center, it says Your photo.
  
  
• There’s no way to differentiate my updates from my friends’ updates. Background and font color are the same.

I hope this post can eventually help improve the app, which is already awesome, but if the issues above are not just my imagination, the app can still have room for improvement.