Some of you really love to read Feedly at night, or you prefer to read in night mode all day. In Mobile+AI Lab Experiment 05, we have a new night mode theme that turns Feedly into a friendly low-light experience.
To turn on night mode, open the left navigation bar, scroll to the bottom, and tap on “night mode.”
Two questions for the community:
Question 1. For those of you who like the dark mode, does the contrast we offer in this first iteration align with what you expect?
Question 2. Did you see any theme-related bugs? Any parts we missed that are still displaying day mode when you have night mode selected?
Looking forward to seeing you on channel 05-night-mode of the Feedly Lab Slack.
Some of you really love to read Feedly at night, or you prefer to read in night mode all day. In Mobile+AI Lab Experiment 05, we have a new night mode theme that turns Feedly into a friendly low-light experience.
To turn on night mode, open the left navigation bar, scroll to the bottom, and tap on “night mode.”
Two questions for the community:
Question 1. For those of you who like the dark mode, does the contrast we offer in this first iteration align with what you expect?
Question 2. Did you see any theme-related bugs? Any parts we missed that are still displaying day mode when you have night mode selected?
Looking forward to seeing you on channel 05-night-mode of the Feedly Lab Slack.
We collected lots of great insights in the last four weeks on people’s mark-as-read workflows. In Experience 04, we are adding to the lab application five different ways to mark articles as read.
Option 1. Tap on the check button on the top right of the page to mark the content of the page a read
Option 2. Long press on an article and mark the items before or after that article as read
Option 3. Use the swipe from right to left to mark a specific article as read (extend the gesture and hide the article)
Option 4. If you have auto-mark as read on scroll configured on Feedly Web, that setting will now be honored in the Lab app and articles will get automatically marked as read as you scroll. You can configure auto-mark-as-read on-scroll in this preference section
Option 5. At the end of each source and feed, there is a button to let you mark the articles you reviewed as read (and jump to the next source of feed)
Finally, we fixed the swipe-to-close article bug (and added a symmetric gesture for people who prefer to swipe from the right)
Three questions for the community:
Question 1. Do the 2-level swipe left to “mark-as-read and hide” feel natural?
Question 2. Do these 5 mark as read options cover all your needs?
Question 3. What would be the top 1 or 2 features you would like to see added over the next 4 weeks for the Lab app to become your default reader?
We created the Feedly Lab to give a voice to the community and make our development process more collaborative and transparent. So far the conversations have been very rewarding and insightful. Thank you!
Looking forward to your input on this new experience on channel 04 of the Feedly Lab Slack.
We collected lots of great insights in the last four weeks on people’s mark-as-read workflows. In Experience 04, we are adding to the lab application five different ways to mark articles as read.
Option 1. Tap on the check button on the top right of the page to mark the content of the page a read
Option 2. Long press on an article and mark the items before or after that article as read
Option 3. Use the swipe from right to left to mark a specific article as read (extend the gesture and hide the article)
Option 4. If you have auto-mark as read on scroll configured on Feedly Web, that setting will now be honored in the Lab app and articles will get automatically marked as read as you scroll. You can configure auto-mark-as-read on-scroll in this preference section
Option 5. At the end of each source and feed, there is a button to let you mark the articles you reviewed as read (and jump to the next source of feed)
Finally, we fixed the swipe-to-close article bug (and added a symmetric gesture for people who prefer to swipe from the right)
Three questions for the community:
Question 1. Do the 2-level swipe left to “mark-as-read and hide” feel natural?
Question 2. Do these 5 mark as read options cover all your needs?
Question 3. What would be the top 1 or 2 features you would like to see added over the next 4 weeks for the Lab app to become your default reader?
We created the Feedly Lab to give a voice to the community and make our development process more collaborative and transparent. So far the conversations have been very rewarding and insightful. Thank you!
Looking forward to your input on this new experience on channel 04 of the Feedly Lab Slack.
We are very grateful for the feedback, ideas, and bugs reported by the Lab community. Thank you for your participation.
In Experience 03, we started to integrate some of your suggestions.
You can now open the left selector and access your feeds, boards, and sources. We hope that this will help us get more refined feedback on paged scrolling versus normal smooth scrolling.
We also morphed title-only into 2 views: compact and text-only. We hope that people who were asking for more density will enjoy the new compact view.
Finally, if an article has a high engagement on Feedly or social media, we brought back the engagement count indicator so that you can quickly spot which pieces of content are going viral.
Three questions for the community:
Question 1. What do you think of the new compact view? Is it dense enough?
Question 2. What do you think of the new open and close animation? This animation was designed so that when you close an article, it is easier to get a sense of where you are on the list and you can easily go back to reviewing the list. Do we deliver on that goal?
Question 3. Does the Lab app load as quickly as the main app for you? Are you satisfied with the initial load time?
Looking forward to your input on channel Experience 03 of the Feedly Lab Slack.
We are very grateful for the feedback, ideas, and bugs reported by the Lab community. Thank you for your participation.
In Experience 03, we started to integrate some of your suggestions.
You can now open the left selector and access your feeds, boards, and sources. We hope that this will help us get more refined feedback on paged scrolling versus normal smooth scrolling.
We also morphed title-only into 2 views: compact and text-only. We hope that people who were asking for more density will enjoy the new compact view.
Finally, if an article has a high engagement on Feedly or social media, we brought back the engagement count indicator so that you can quickly spot which pieces of content are going viral.
Three questions for the community:
Question 1. What do you think of the new compact view? Is it dense enough?
Question 2. What do you think of the new open and close animation? This animation was designed so that when you close an article, it is easier to get a sense of where you are on the list and you can easily go back to reviewing the list. Do we deliver on that goal?
Question 3. Does the Lab app load as quickly as the main app for you? Are you satisfied with the initial load time?
Looking forward to your input on channel Experience 03 of the Feedly Lab Slack.
We all have different preferences when it comes to the layout of the lists of articles we skim. Some people prefer text only, some prefer large images, some prefer a mix of both. We created different views to let you personalize Feedly to what works best for you.
The purpose of Experiment 2 is to give the community the opportunity to provide feedback and help tune the designs.
Use the […] button on the top right of the Today view to customize the view and test different layouts.
Questions for the community:
Question 1. What do you think of the choice of the font and font-size? Are the lists easy to skim?
Question 2. In the new magazine view, we moved the images to the right to have a better alignment when some articles don’t have images. Does that work for you?
Question 3. Are you satisfied with the layout and density of the title-only view?
Question 4. Are you satisfied with the amount of metadata we surface in the article list? Do you have enough information to determine if an article is worth opening?
Question 5. Do you have any additional feedback on how we could make these views more useful and productive for you?
Looking forward to talking more about this in the Lab Slack channel!
We want to thank the 200+ people who installed the Lab app and joined the Lab Slack. Your feedback and bug reports have been super useful.
We fixed most of the bugs as part of the new experience.
We also asked the design team to explore the two most pressing issues reported by the community: 1/ the ability to mark articles in batch and 2/ re-enforcing the feeling that the today page is not infinite. We will start sharing some design ideas on Slack shortly.
We all have different preferences when it comes to the layout of the lists of articles we skim. Some people prefer text only, some prefer large images, some prefer a mix of both. We created different views to let you personalize Feedly to what works best for you.
The purpose of Experiment 2 is to give the community the opportunity to provide feedback and help tune the designs.
Use the […] button on the top right of the Today view to customize the view and test different layouts.
Questions for the community:
Question 1. What do you think of the choice of the font and font-size? Are the lists easy to skim?
Question 2. In the new magazine view, we moved the images to the right to have a better alignment when some articles don’t have images. Does that work for you?
Question 3. Are you satisfied with the layout and density of the title-only view?
Question 4. Are you satisfied with the amount of metadata we surface in the article list? Do you have enough information to determine if an article is worth opening?
Question 5. Do you have any additional feedback on how we could make these views more useful and productive for you?
Looking forward to talking more about this in the Lab Slack channel!
We want to thank the 200+ people who installed the Lab app and joined the Lab Slack. Your feedback and bug reports have been super useful.
We fixed most of the bugs as part of the new experience.
We also asked the design team to explore the two most pressing issues reported by the community: 1/ the ability to mark articles in batch and 2/ re-enforcing the feeling that the today page is not infinite. We will start sharing some design ideas on Slack shortly.
The first experiment of the Mobile+AI Lab is around the scrolling experience in the mobile app.
The main purpose of the Feedly mobile app is to allow you to quickly skim through 50 to 100 articles, pick and read 3 to 10 of them, and share or save the most interesting ones.
How easily and naturally you skim through articles is the most important part of the experience.
In the existing Feedly mobile app, we have a paged scrolling experience — mainly for performance reasons.
Given that we are starting the new Feedly mobile application from scratch, we thought that it would be interesting to explore a smooth scrolling experience and see if it makes skimming through 50 to 100 articles more seamless and effortless.
Questions for the Lab participants:
Question 1. Download the Feedly Lab iOS app and log into your Feedly account. Scroll through your Today stream, and then let us know if the new scrolling experience feels better than the current paged scrolling.
Question 2. On average, how many articles can you scroll through before your eyes get tired?
—Looking forward to talking more about this in the Lab Slack channel!
The first experiment of the Mobile+AI Lab is around the scrolling experience in the mobile app.
The main purpose of the Feedly mobile app is to allow you to quickly skim through 50 to 100 articles, pick and read 3 to 10 of them, and share or save the most interesting ones.
How easily and naturally you skim through articles is the most important part of the experience.
In the existing Feedly mobile app, we have a paged scrolling experience — mainly for performance reasons.
Given that we are starting the new Feedly mobile application from scratch, we thought that it would be interesting to explore a smooth scrolling experience and see if it makes skimming through 50 to 100 articles more seamless and effortless.
Questions for the Lab participants:
Question 1. Download the Feedly Lab iOS app and log into your Feedly account. Scroll through your Today stream, and then let us know if the new scrolling experience feels better than the current paged scrolling.
Question 2. On average, how many articles can you scroll through before your eyes get tired?
—Looking forward to talking more about this in the Lab Slack channel!
