Seal Seal
Latest release of the official 'Twitter' app. A perfect lesson in how NOT to design an app! An inexcusable shambles!

December 29, 2011     9 retweets #

chorodelcanasto Henry Seal
@Seal My Brother Wish You a Great 2012. Hoping to see you soon in Chile

December 29, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal I'm listening if you have feedback (about Twitter's design).

December 29, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop Feedback? Okay, tweeting in of itself is a simple concept, texting for the new ages. It is not necessary to overengineer it! Tweetbot!

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal Cool. I'm curious what you think is better about Tweetbot's tweet screen? cl.ly/2I2M0e2H0X1a2V…

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop It is full featured but not overwhelming. It's colour scheme, buttons, choice of fonts are inviting. It maintains uniformity.

December 30, 2011 #

mrw Matthew R. Weinberg
@Seal Your awesome answer about @tweetbot just made my night. I completely agree.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop Are you one of the official twitter app developers?

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal I'm creative director here, and lead the design team. Thus why your comments about the design caught my eye.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop ..r hand is the complete opposite of your iPhone app. Uniformity, consistency and doesn't require relearning with each update.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop For example, why on earth have you moved the DM tab? I'm sure it's in a more space efficient place but it wasn't broken to begin with.

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal To be honest, it's likely optimizing for more mainstream users, not more advanced/power users like you.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop Hmm...I wouldn't call myself a "Power user" in the least. However I cannot argue with you, on the assumption you know your market.

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal Well, you may not a power user (yet). Anyone with over 1k followers ends up using Twitter differently than those with fewer.

December 30, 2011 #

camfisk Cameron Fisk
@stop @Seal Doug, it's not your fault for why many are frustrated with it, business is business. Keep up the solid creative side eh. :)

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@camfisk @stop If my head of production is rude to a fan, it is My fault! If the drummer fks-up in stage, no one goes away saying (cont)

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@camfisk @stop "Man, seal sang his ass off but that drummer sucked!". Point is the buck stops with me. I'm curious who's fault (cont)

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@camfisk @stop you think it is if people are frustrated with a product?

December 30, 2011 #

camfisk Cameron Fisk
@Seal @stop I tend to look to those at the top. I guess we can be thankful for now that there's other options for Twitter clients to use.

December 30, 2011 #

PapaCl1ck Chad
@stop @Seal Maybe he is talking about the main timeline in its self?

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@PapaCl1ck @stop I'm talking about the simple DM section. I shouldn't have to think about where it is. I'm not saying things cannot change..

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal @papacl1ck Right. Don't assume this is the end state. This is just the beginning. We'll continue to listen to feedback.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop @papacl1ck Up until last week, I didn't even know what hash tagging did. I'm your typical entry level user and even I used DM a lot.

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal By the way, in the Twitter app, swiping up from the Me tab will bring up DMs. A glow there indicates new DMs.

December 30, 2011     1 retweets #

Seal Seal
@stop Thanks, will check it out now.

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal Really appreciate your feedback. Has anyone else from Twitter reached out to you yet to offer assistance, or answer any questions?

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop No, they haven't but I haven't exactly asked for it. Thanks for taking the time for explaining the process to me. Best of luck.

December 30, 2011     1 retweets #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal If you haven't met my colleague @Omid yet, you should if you ever can. He's your man for all things entertainment at Twitter.

December 30, 2011 #

TheMeatSlicer Jon Anderson
@stop so this is what it takes to be successful in the business world? Maybe I don't have what it takes. These people are maddening to me.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop Thank you. Redownloaded Official Twitter app and a public apology is in order. It's great now that I understand it. I was wrong.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop Just followed @Omed. If I have questions I will reach out to him. Thanks.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop correction, @omid.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@PapaCl1ck @stop ..I'm saying that it's a hard sell to change overall outlay in a dime from one day to the next. People need to be handheld.

December 30, 2011 #

PapaCl1ck Chad
@Seal @stop I agree. I used DM a lot. And hated it being removed. Even if there is a simple gesture that will bring it up.

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@stop You worked at Google, who should know about simplicity, consistency and uniformity better than you? Their web apps are spectacular!

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@Seal The design of this version of the Twitter apps was all about simplifying. Removing less-used features, reorganizing to clarify.

December 30, 2011 #

Bodisaffa Bdisaffa
@stop You now have open a web link to save the page to read later! How is that progress and simplifying? And zero list management options!

December 30, 2011 #

camfisk Cameron Fisk
@stop @Seal "So you like your Mercedes better than our Pinto? Cool. I'm curious what you think is better about your tire's valve caps?"

December 30, 2011 #

stop Doug Bowman
@camfisk How is that relevant? The only thing he initially mentioned was tweeting, so I asked about that.

December 30, 2011 #

camfisk Cameron Fisk
@stop Fair enough—I assume he's referring to the whole experience based on his other tweets. I'm not faulting you, it just seemed cornering.

December 30, 2011 #

Bodisaffa Bdisaffa
@stop I have to agree. I was gobsmacked at the new twitter iOS. Completely featureless. Instapaper buried. NO LIST management! DM’s hidden

December 30, 2011 #

Seal Seal
@camfisk @stop Don't own a Merc butt if I did, I would most certainly dig it more due to ergonomics, not cost!

December 30, 2011 #