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A case study for bad UI and UX
Unlike the website, which resembles most popular news sites, the app is more like a first semester university students work.
Having to wait several minutes for content to download, which I assume is because the app is downloading entire magazines, or the horizontal scrolling with huge amounts of vacant screen real estate around it, or the background that animates resembling popular styles from early iOS apps from 2008/09, its overall a poor UI and poor UX.
What the app gets right is the article display. It looks and feels like most other news and blog apps, which partially alleviates the poor user experience received prior.
The app prior to display of articles could be significantly improved with the “less is more” approach; use a table view or collection view to show weekly magazine issues with just their date, title and other essential information rather than downloading entire issues first; it would consume less server resources serving up just the essential information and significantly improve the UX by making the app feel faster.
Likewise with the display of articles in the selected issue, just display the essential information relevant to the article in a collection view like the native Apple News app instead of forcing a wait time for information I may not even use to download.
Finally, follow the Human User Interface Guidelines and use native navigation features such as UINavigationController and UITabBarControllers.
The content is always good. But content dedicated to Apple products is not done justice when displayed in non-Apple-esque (or to be more accurate, decade old) style. Hope this helps the developers.Show lessOzAppDevGuy
A ‘Cult of Mac’ app that’s not updated for the iPhone X? Seriously?!?
Does not make use of the iPhone X display. The X has been around for a year now. It seems this app hasn’t been updated in 3 years, and it shows. The design looks dated. Kind of embarrassing.Wolf-somethingsomething
iPhone XS Max
This is a magazine about Apple. Shouldn’t they update to support Apple’s latest flagship device (iPhone Xs Max)?iPad Composer
RIP
May as well be removed. Looks shocking, loads terrible and it’s been forgotten. In the running for the worst tech magazine app in the App Store.Dar_73
Sorry, i’m not interested in a bunch of ads
I can get the same information on other sites without requiring me to accept all of the ads.Pete On Tour
Pointless App
Why bother downloading the app when it’s “magazine” is just filled with links that redirect you to the Cult of Mac site?DanielXia
Pain
I open this app every day with the same problem. It shows me every day one mistake which i don`t understand. It`s impossible!Cool_@ndy
Very nice
We can't have enough like this :)TotoMic
I think the app is great
I don't get the beef on these reviews. But I guess if you read the comments on Cult of Mac it makes sense. We're some of the most passionate and opinionated readers out there.
Despite being a loyal Cult of Mac reader who falls into this category I think the app is great. And I obviously love the content.Show lessJeniffer
iPad-optimized app for Apple news
This app serves up a weekly roundup of the best news and features (including how-tos, tips and product reviews) from Apple news website Cult of Mac.Bernal Blaster
