Instead, it surfaces only five or ten notes automatically, based on how useful it thinks it will be to you. The lesson? Design to get people in and out of your app as quickly as possible.Īlthough Evernote’s previous efforts on the Android Wear platform tried to give users full access to their note library on a smartwatch, Evernote for Apple Watch takes a step back. “It should be only three to five.” Having released apps for wearable platforms like the Pebble smartwatch and Android Wear, the Evernote design team has seen that after 30 seconds, users’ arms get tired. “In our opinion, that’s actually too long,” says Hull. The Apple Watch user interface guidelines recommend that developers keep their interactions on the watch to under 30 seconds. By using strong, colorful iconography, like a green plus button to add a new note, Evernote for Apple Watch can communicate what buttons do in an intuitive way without wasting pixels on a label. The Evernote app, for example, has three different top-level interactions competing for attention on a very small screen. There’s just not enough room on a cramped screen for labels, says Hull. Here’s what she told us.Įven more so than on other devices, the use of clear iconography and strong colors in a user interface is important in an Apple Watch. Since it’s one of the early entrants into the Apple Watch arena, we asked Evernote’s VP of mobile products, Jamie Hull, to tell us what the Evernote team had learned from developing the app.
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