Wednesday, June 08, 2011

There's a BETTER App for that

Many of you may or may not know that my husband works for an (Award winning) app development company here in the Dallas area. They've produced apps for major companies such as NPR, Bravo, BET, National Geographic, American Express and SPIN Magazine, just to name a few. Recently, my husband's team developed a new app for the National Science Foundation (NSF). I was lucky enough to be able to beta test it during the very final stages of development for a perspective on user-experience and provide feedback on things I felt worked or didn't work or what I thought was confusing, etc.

Finally the app has launched and I am so excited about it. I normally do not get excited about apps - I mean, I have apps on my phone that I was initially excited about but the experience just wore off really quickly. I have to tell you that this time - not the case. I think I tested that app for about an hour or more and STILL wanted to play with it before my husband took it away. There is SO much content, beautiful imagery, incredible knowledge and videos that you get from this app that I can't ever see 'wanting' to put it down. Not to mention that when you're viewing the screen, it's like you're standing in a dark room with a wall full of screens, all with different content, surrounding you - hence the Science360 name.

This would definitely be a great app for using in a class setting, home schoolers, or just people who enjoy learning about things around them. Literally it would be hard for anyone to get through all of the content in one day and the content will be continuously updated.

Seriously, if any of you has an iPad. Go download the free app and check it out. And don't forget to rate it if you really like it. I promise you will.

1 comments:

Mrs. Pancakes said...

I love the title of your entry! I love apps too!

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