Hi Anthony, In response to your mention of Duo, actually the UI isn't very complex. I appreciate that you're quite experienced in this regard, but we've done our fair share of UIs over the years too. =) Having said that, I understand that it's really hard to get a feel for how simple or complex a UI is based on a market-oriented video.
Where I believe we went wrong in terms of execution was failing to grab and hold the judges' attention in the first 2 minutes of their experience. This problem existed for both our software and, in particular, our documentation (which I talk about in more detail in my post-mortem). I forgot to mention this in my post-mortem, but in total, 3 people created Duo accounts: 2 judges and a certain Google employee who isn't a judge. That means, sadly, 50% of our judging panel either didn't like our documentation or experienced some kind of tragic technical difficulty. Either of these possible cases are extremely unfortunate but both preventable (for example, by creating a video before you submit and putting a link to it at the top of your document, which we didn't do). Regards, Michael On May 13, 3:31 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the end though, a key element in the judging process seems to have > been how well the application's vision was executed. This explains > for instance why one app that I thought was guaranteed a slot (Duo) > didn't get in. It seems the initial UI was too complex so the more > interesting features were never accessed. I hope to see an updated > Duo entered into Challenge Round 2 though! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
