Link：Flipboard
Price：Free
Ratings：★★★★
Pros：
- Novice reading experiences by flipping through your fingers, users can read information very easily even with one hand.
- Beautiful & modern interface design
- With instapaper & read it later, mute authors to give consideration to reading habits.
- Able to sync iPhone & iPad to provide a unify experience
Suggestions:
- Kind of complicated to navigate through contents for the first few times, with so many arrows on the interface, although users can navigate anywhere easily, but might feel lost sometimes.
- Users can't be sure if their tap will work or not, no obvious indicator or design on tappable area.
- Actions are not consistent enough, take author images for example, tap images will lead to content preview or mute page.
Check out the video to see how Flipboard basically works.
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Cover photos can be tapped to view the contents.
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By flip through the page, you will see next page, each grid is a feed.
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The right upper red ribbon is available anywhere inside Flipboard; however, other functions are provided from page 2.
- Tap to subscribe to more feeds.
- The same as 1
- Refresh all the contents
- Name the number of pages
- Settings to manage accounts and so on.
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I guess the content feeds are provided based on the location instead of your system language, I live in Taiwan, so most of the available contents are in Chinese and websites in Taiwan, that's quite thoughtful.
- Tap to post to Facebook or Twitter
Besides messages, you can also attach photos from your phone to it. When you attach a photo, Flipboard will shorten the URL.
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When you tap search bar, it shows popular searches on Flipboard for your reference.
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- Search to find more contents, tap "+" to subscribe
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Take Jamie Oliver's post for example to demo for the viewing experience. Obviously you can tap thumb to like this post easily. Originally 1 & 2 belongs to the same article, Flipboard separate the link and content and break it into those 2 parts
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- Tap to the link content directly.
- Tap to the content without comment and reply
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- View comments and reply to the post
- Go to section or mute the author so that he/she won't appear on your Flipboard
- Like this post
- Share this post
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| Tap "Show section" to this author's feed. |
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| Tap to view replies and comment on the post, you will see the list who likes the post as well. |
The different between share options is I have signed up for Instapaper to use "Read Later", since the information nowadays is so overwhelming and consider the mobile dynamic environment, it's a nice feature.
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When you tap on the author image and enter the header, you will find out a "+" next to the author name, tap to add this feed to your Flipboard to view it individually as below
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- Settings
You can log in your "Instapaper" or "Read it later" account in "Read Later", check out muted authors and unmuted them here.
