{"id":1592,"date":"2020-09-29T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2023-12-10T01:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T09:13:58","slug":"designing-a-flash-card-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Designing a flash card app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start a series of posts about the User Experience (UX) design elements I&#8217;ve included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/freshcards\">Fresh Cards<\/a>, a new iOS and macOS flash card app I&#8217;m developing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun thinking through the UX of the app in an attempt to make it as easy to use as possible. I want to share some of the little details I&#8217;ve included because I think they&#8217;re great and I&#8217;m quite proud of them. &#x1f601; I think there are some key design principles that a flash card should employ to keep users coming back. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1542\">I&#8217;ve discussed previously<\/a>, existing flash card apps don&#8217;t have quite such easy to use user experiences. After working on my app, I can see why. It&#8217;s a lot of work to think through each user interaction. Often, after you&#8217;ve implemented a solution, you find some things that need tweaking, so you go back to the drawing board and re-do it. This process of refining a user experience should not be new to UX designers, but for regular devs, it can be surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, watch this space as I&#8217;ll be posting in the next few days and weeks about the UX in Fresh Cards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1595\" style=\"width: 1824px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1595\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-29-at-10.13.48-AM.min_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1824\" height=\"1544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-29-at-10.13.48-AM.min_.png 1824w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-29-at-10.13.48-AM.min_-580x491.png 580w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-29-at-10.13.48-AM.min_-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-29-at-10.13.48-AM.min_-940x796.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1824px) 100vw, 1824px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Fresh Cards for macOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start a series of posts about the User Experience (UX) design elements I&#8217;ve included in Fresh Cards, a new iOS and macOS flash card app I&#8217;m developing. I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun thinking through the UX of the app in an attempt to make it as easy to use as possible. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Designing a flash card app<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}