“When building an app for Apple Watch, Mikael Berner and his team at EasilyDo quickly learned that their work could carry over to the iPhone,” Shara Tibken reports for CNET.
“The EasilyDo developers found it sometimes took too long for users to find the information they wanted in the company’s namesake app — which acts as a virtual assistant by managing your email, calendar, travel information and services like LinkedIn,” Tibken reports. “When you’re wearing a smartwatch, you need to be able to glance down and see what you’re looking for without digging through menus. Deciding that also made sense on the iPhone, the developers restructured their smartphone app to also be ‘more micro-moment,'” said EasilyDo CEO Berner, showing quick glances of information that’s relevant to what you’re doing at a particular time.”
“Apple Watch hasn’t hit the market yet, but its tiny screen is already changing how our iPhone apps look and feel,” Tibken reports. “Some of the simple, ‘glanceable’ functions found on Apple’s first wearable will make their way to smartphone apps, as will more minimalist designs. And it’s not just about making the phone and watch apps work together seamlessly, but actually incorporating watch features — like new functions and different design schemes — in the iPhone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This makes sense.
We’re currently considering future options for our app, too. Perhaps, for our app, one that simply sends notifications of new articles to iOS devices, listing current headlines with brief descriptions that when tapped opens that article in a MacDailyNews mobile site in Safari, would work better than attempting to replicate too many functions of the site in an app and trying to keep it current with annual iOS software and device changes? Do you think that approach would work better?