Comment by _frog | Hacker News Reader

Comment by _frog | Hacker News Reader

Okay, a few thoughts on the design:

- Hidden side menus are a great solution when you've got a lot of items to display, otherwise use a tab bar. I know sliding deck menus are stylish and all, but tab bars are always going to be faster to use if you have five or less options.

- I'm seeing a lot of sub-44pt controls here. Things like the 'go to comments' bar and some of the sidebar buttons are hard to hit due to their small size.

- The navigation bar here is far too prominent for something that displays such little information. You should really stick to a 44pt navigation bar with a title that actually adds context to what's being displayed.

Otherwise it's a nice looking app, congratulations on launching it!

Came by to say some of the same. I like side menu, its on a button and are options that need to up all the time. The comments 'mini nav bar' functionality could all be on the actual nav bar. 44 + x is too much real estate to constantly waste... you could have it disappear on scrolldown like safari does.

Gonna' implement the scroll-down on the next release. That's a great idea.

Thanks for the comments (and about the name further down, unfortunately I didn't consider that, but I'll stick with it for now).

I'm hoping to add some more options into the nav later, like using an API that allows me to add logging in/upvoting posts and some more settings options (theme being one).

Again, thanks for the comments and criticism, it'll make this app better for the next release.

Also one more thing, 'There's no unintuitive buttons' seems like a weird statement to me. What's especially unintuitive about buttons?

Guess I wasn't too clear (ironic with unintuitive haha), but I've seen a lot of apps that have icon buttons that don't tell much about what they're gonna' do before you click on them. It's my goal to make things as clear as possible and I'm already seeing some things to give more meaning to for 1.1

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