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Introducing Paper

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Re: Introducing Paper

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grey-area wrote: post #2

Some beautiful design and thoughtful UI in the app here, and this is also a lovely microsite - I love the use of the video full screen. It'd be great to see some of this sort of thoughtful design go into the UI of web browsers on mobile platforms (which are also platforms for reading and sharing stories). Shame it's from Facebook.

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Post by pavs »

grey-area wrote: post #2

Some beautiful design and thoughtful UI in the app here, and this is also a lovely microsite - I love the use of the video full screen. It'd be great to see some of this sort of thoughtful design go into the UI of web browsers on mobile platforms (which are also platforms for reading and sharing stories). Shame it's from Facebook.

Why is it shame its from facebook? FB has been at the forefront of awesome UI design concepts for al long time, specifically in mobile.

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Post by burpee »

sambeau wrote: post #5

I wonder what 53 will make of Facebook's choice of App name? http://www.fiftythree.com/paper

Although I'm not particularly familiar with the latest in US trademark laws, in most European trademark cases it can be argued that the name "Paper" is too descriptive to be defended.

At the same time the fact that both are in the general category of "apps for the curation and creation of content", the confusion in the market is definitely going to be there.

Curious to see how this is going to turn out...

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by erikb »

this looks like an idea that was tried so many times and people just don't care. I think about smart tags in GMail here, or circles. Most people simply don't micromanage their data flows according to topics. Maybe I simply don't get the difference here, but if I am right, then I am deeply disappointed and frustrated to see people spend money and smart developers' time into ideas that already failed years ago.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by rplnt »

gagege wrote: post #3

The video was choppy and froze part way through. Seems to happen to me a lot with these types of websites. On different computers, even.

I tried three different browsers. Opera was very laggy, Chrome just showed one frame and Firefox was moderately laggy. Resizing the tab helped a bit. Audio was choppy as well. My HW specs are far from low (though it is not a gaming machine either).

I couldn't pause the video, fast forward it or even see any indicator of progress. I didn't even expect volume settings.

Considering all this, the page is simply horrible. It might look nice (on paper perhaps), but the UX is the worst. Visuals alone don't make good sites.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by kyro »

I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform.

What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvious when they tried the whole Facebook phone thing.

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