The Larmen.com Guide to Italian Coffee - work continues

After listening to people who have used the Coffee Guide I decided to make a few changes. In a regular process this would of course have been tested in-house, before the application was uploaded to Google Play. When I run into a friend or acquaintance it's easier to just direct them to the Google Play store though, so it very much encourages spontaneous user studies.

One major point of user complaint was that the view is erratic in where it places the headline of the coffee type in relation to the content. Often times, the headline (coffee type, e.g. Cappuccino) gets hidden above the screen, and you get transported to the middle of the content instead. This seems to be due to the operating system not knowing the size of a particular view before scrolling to it. I've tried to remedy this by using the built-in system method smoothScrollTo(), and sending it to the headlines position in the view. This did unfortunately help in any significant way, so I'm going to call in support from a friend on this issue.

 The initial view. Clicking on Cappuccino sends me to the view below.

 The headline and content are both visible. Scrolling down a bit and clicking on the item Caffè Latte gets the below view.

The headline of the coffee type is not visible.

Secondly, it turns out that the colors in the image are not as clear on the devices as I would have hoped when creating the assets. The blue color we chose for water for instance is too bright, and kind of melds together with the cup color. The same thing goes for the different shades of milky white.

What I wanted to achieve with the application was a navigational flow where the user would feel encouraged to explore the different alternatives. This goal has only partly been achieved, I think partly due to the issues mentioned above.