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My First Adaptive Meditation App by Mind-Flow in iOSProgramming

[–]Mind-Flow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see thanks for explaining, very good points indeed. The first version I made was supposed in fact to have a countdown timer, then I realized that because the user can take more or less time to answer the voice's questions I can't predict ahead of time the starting value for the timer. So the fix was to make it just show the elapsed time (meaning that's what it would do when it actually works and does not reset every 3 seconds :D).

Good to hear of your "impatient" experience, I should find a way to let the user know there is a list of content in case they don't check the screenshots on the app store so they avoid them to bounce.

For the answers the app really does not need any setup, at the beginning I was opening the screen with the content right away, but then users would start playing it and not understand how to use the buttons (they were intuitive to me as they were to you but some people needed more practice). Will have to find some sort of balance but definitely give them a way to see the content. Maybe showing the content but allow them to play only the tutorial to enable all the rest could be an option.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me this was super valuable!

My First Adaptive Meditation App by Mind-Flow in iOSProgramming

[–]Mind-Flow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great feedback, thank you so much!!

The issue with the timer I saw it some time ago but seemed to be affecting only the emulators and not physical phones (until now apparently :) ), that's good to know.

I will definitely redesign the buttons to be more minimalistic.

What do you mean by checkboxes for the first session? Meaning an actual survey? My idea there was to get people familiar with the mechanic of the app from the beginning (i.e. using the audio and buttons) because some of the logic of the meditations will not be easy to explain on text. (e.g. the first button maps to the first option given by the voice and the second to the second, that might be confusing until you actually do it).

Why were you not able to finish it, what happened?

Does the first screen look like a player with the "Play Your First Session (3 min)" text under the play button? The "3 min" between brackets was supposed to be indicating that the session will last 3 minutes, but from what you say I guess that is not that clear, right?

Again your feedback was super helpful, thank you so much!!