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Building Fiddme: Simplifying Rating and Sharing

June 9th, 2010 by ekampf · View Comments · Building Fiddme

One of the problems with the current way we let people post new bites on the iPhone app is that some of the most important controls – rating and sharing – are hidden away in a More Options screen that many users are not aware of.

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Since both rating and transparency regarding which services the bite is going to be posted to are very important to us (we don’t want users to reach a point where users are spamming their followers on other services without knowing) we’ve been working on a new design to make these two controls, and the entire process of uploading a new bite a lot simpler:

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The idea is that the icons at the bottom will reflect the current state. So if you rate the dish as Awesome the icon and text at the bottom will change to reflect that choice. On the Sharing buttons, the services currently selected for sharing will be emphasized.

With this new design, all the information about the bite and where its going to be posted is available in a single screen.

Updated:
It seems that the new bite screen in its current form is an infringement of a Polaroid trademark. As we don’t want people to confuse Fiddme, the young foodie startup from Israel, with Polaroid, the multi-billion dollars corporation, we’ve changed the photo borders to reflect our unique brand ;)

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  • whiskyisrael

    when can we download this version?

  • http://ekampf.myopenid.com/ Eran Kampf

    We're currently waiting for Apple's approval…

  • http://www.hultberg.org Manne

    Just posted my first bite, and despite having seen the options control in your presentation video on the About page I missed them… So you are spot on with this. :)

    Interesting about Polaroid…

  • http://www.facebook.com/ekampf Eran Kampf

    Thanks! :)
    The changes mentioned in this post are now public on the latest version that is in the App Store.
    You should upgrade, and never miss those controls again ;)

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  • Entroido

    Hi I miss a option to change bites that have wrong location or to delete bites. I have posted some bites in Marbella (Spain) but they are really hundreds of km away. So this information is not right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lauravicentesanz Laura Vicente

    How can I see bits posted by people from Spain? If I make a search using “Spain” I'm the only person who comes out…
    Am I the only one!? :)

    How about an option for location of a restaurant that uses my current gps Iphone position? ;)

    REGARDS!

  • http://www.facebook.com/lauravicentesanz Laura Vicente

    sorry it came twice

  • http://www.facebook.com/ekampf Eran Kampf

    Hi Laura,
    We’re working on features to allow better discovery of people in our future release.
    Currently you can find people using your Facebook and Twitter accoutn as well as send invitations…

    Regards,
    Eran

  • http://www.facebook.com/lauravicentesanz Laura Vicente

    Yeah! me too :(
    The location field has the right address but the image generated from google maps is completely wrong

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