Yet another UX post: Foursquare
I’m a new user on Foursquare. (Yes, I’m very late, I know.)
As it turns out, I’ve been checking in “off-the-grid” by accident for two weeks now. I was wondering why Foursquare stated “off-the-grid” on my iPhone, but I wrote is off as an app bug. Silly me. But come on, the “off-the-grid” term can seem like a bug as it’s kind of nerdy expression for “hidden”, right? The FAQ site above underlines this: Foursquare doen’t need a FAQ page for this, it needs better copy.
The current Foursquare iPhone Check-in screen states “Share with friends?”. I was unchecking this as I wouldn’t spam my Twitter friends. Now I realize that “friends” only refers to one’s Foursquare friends. I guess it makes sense, as you have “Share with…” Twitter underneath it, but I didn’t realize the Twitter logo was a button. I thought this was a list of services on which I would be sharing my check-ins.
Attached is a quick mockup of how I would have gone by designing this screen. It simply states every service you can share your check-in on. In addition it also encourages the user to add more services (or “friends”) to share with.
What do you think?
