The Worst, Really.

There is a collective delusion around this app on blogs online.

To get a feel for this application immagine assigning a project to a creative kid with lots of questionable ideas, lacking taste and judgement to understand what works in real life and what doesn’t, unapologetically assuming to know it all, pretending to put every idea in no matter what, and very committed to reinventing the wheel.
In the meantime his buddies outside are making noise and cheering him up.
Whelcome to iA Writer.

I’d like to ask the fans, for a quick example, if they dont feel the library view is the worst implementation of the concept, with those giagantic toys listing and with the title and preview automatically and imprevedibly picked up by the app itself. (you have no control).
Or what about refusing to have buttons and setting while at the same time putting in a full memu bar (like those on the mac!) with, guess what? actions and setting, just not the ones youd want.
It also gets in the way all the time you scroll your document down!, crazy. Isn’t it the worst way to implement it?

I could go on with so many issues of design and even readabily, and this is just a three panel view app.
Everything that could be simple and intuitive is made counterintuitive and complicated for no reason and despite their own intentions.
This is a classic example of overthinking degenerated into a mess.

This is the most ugly, inconsistent and disfunctinal app I have ever seen.
The rationalization that goes on on their website to justify the unjustifiable is over the top.

I feel bad for having eaten the hype and having encouraged them with my 10€.

It is so bad I am disgusted.

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