Needs more intuitive elements
I love the new Logos iPhone/iPad app. It's pretty intuitive overall, and the features are excellent.
But a few non-intuitive things had me stumped for the longest time. They all deal with navigation. The best time to share this info is after my first few hours of usage, when the impressions are fresh.
For example, I tapped the "share" icon and then "Text Comparison" which replaced the current view with the text comparison view. After reviewing this, I wanted to go back, and do you think that's intuitive? It isn't! Took about half an hour of finger swipes, multi-finger gestures, menu taps and other things before I finally tried the left-pointing arrow next to the passage.
Normal human behavior expects that a left-pointing arrow next to a Scripture passage means to go back to a previous verse or book. It isn't intuitive to expect that the user will know that this means going back to the previously open feature set (I don't consider text comparisons to be a book, but a feature set).
Sometimes tapping the book title misses, especially when there are two panes open, and then the header pane opens but it isn't clear that this is for the other content pane, the one you reached by accident. So you end up going back or choosing a different book and realize only after that it was responding to the pane you didn't select. One easy way around this is to more clearly designate the active pane, perhaps by darkening the non-active one.
Another annoying issue: after searching for Tychicus, I selected another term and chose "Search the Bible for" but the old search term was still shown. There was nothing to indicate what needs to happen next. The expectation is that it will simply search right away but you have to do something else first and it's not at all clear what that something is. Do you click on "Bible"? or Basic? What does Basic stand for, anyway? Or do you select a book? It's not clear because the search button isn't visible unless you tap inside the search field .
Just a few thoughts that might help improve the product.
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Hi George. Welcome to the forums, and appreciate your fresh appraisal. First impressions are critical.
I'm just bumping this back to the top. I'm not an owner but it sounds like they programmed to match the Logos4 orientation? (left/right resets to the previous/next view); up/down is the verse/article. But just guessing.
Again, we look forward to your participation on the forum.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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