Users of software and services will always respond to change with mixed reaction. This is a reality that creators of interactive products always do or at least should expect. As brands work hard to innovate a product, some ideas bring improvement while others may not. Good or bad, user feedback is almost always helpful. By helpful I simply mean to include enough context that it can inform future iteration & progress. Lets face it… a simple “I love it – I hate it” does not reveal enough to build upon or respond to.

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Recently I have been experiencing some odd quirks on my Facebook app for iPhone. Initially, I had thought that the app had simply been updated with a change to it’s primary navigation moving from a side drawer system to a bar at bottom of the app. Below you can see the new experience. However, as I asked friends and coworkers what they thought – none seemed to have this change reflected in their application experience.

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We are looking for an innovative product designer to join us in making sure that TV.com and metacritic can wow the 15 million users who visit us each month! The successful candidate is someone who will take part in the ongoing product evolution to our suite of web and mobile products.

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We are looking for an innovative designer to join the CNET mobile web / native app design team. The successful candidate is someone who will take part in the ongoing product evolution to our suite of iOS, Android and mobile web products.

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This week we released some really cool and important updates to the CNET mobile experience. Since the recent deployment of our iPad app – we have been very eager to replace the existing iPhone product to insure a unified experience for our users.

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Last week we launched the CNET iPad App to the Apple App store and we feel strongly that it is the most elegant, simple and intuitive way to consume CNET content yet. This was one of the first projects we embarked upon as I took over the reigns of CNET design.

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It was an exciting week for us to be able to launch our newly completed iPhone and Android apps into the the marketplace. While this first release is not as feature rich as I would like them to be, I feel good about being able to create an app framework for both platforms that we will be able to build upon in the coming months.

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The use of common navigational GUIs are key in showing users how to quickly learn your App.  Apple’s iPhone SDK and visual language are very well defined which makes it that much easier to create effective navigation / user flows.

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