Ok Andrei, I bought in. So I'm reviewing it here: 1) I am not a Mint user (I'm not the CFO in my house, so it never made sense for me), but I've heard amazing things about it.
If the Mint out of box, purchasing, installing, etc. experience is anything like what I went through with Fever, i can't believe that it is lauded in any way what so ever. It was the convoluted and scary. before people balk, I have done many installs from drupal to WP etc. and this was on par w/ those (NOT a good thing) at some points and wierder/scarier in others. 2) now that I have it running, I really like the visual design a lot but with some caveats. a) what is the " " sign for, and I don't get it. b) What? it sends me to the web site? I'm so used to reading almost all the posts in GReader and that by itself makes Fever, more like hypothermia. 3) From a pure HCI perspective, there are few interactions communicated in the design itself. I'm not talking about the few pop-up support messages that come up. I'm talking about the entire UI. I look at the design and I seriously do not know what to do. So all this begs me to actually say that I really disagree with Andrei about this experience. I think that what Andrei describes in his 1st post is ALL true. And is all good. but it is 1/2 the IxD story. it is the part that most of DON'T get which is why it is important to look at, but we still need something that is the whole story (regardless of whether it is one person or a team). I'm going to sit with it some more and really TRY to use it fully for a week or so. Some aspects that will be hard to give up from GReader: 1) gmail integration: the ability to send email from w/in the app is a huge thing for me. 2) sharing and comments. (more the sharing). This is a widget in my blog and I know few people who rely on my ability to share like this. 3) Firefox plugin Better Google Reader which primarily allows me to view full web page INSIDE GReader. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42925 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
