The iPhone mobile application is sadly not in the same standard as the physical experience. The navigation is inconsistent, the search is not working well and some of the icons are too small for a touch device.

Search results When typing in a search query the results show images instead of text. This doesn’t give users any indication whether the search results are relevant.

Navigation This navigation tab is confusing. When users clicks on the tabs they would expect the content on the top to change but this tab system only affects the content below. Navigation bars works best in a fixed position rather than scrollable objects.

Toggle view The ‘toggle view’ button is too small for a touch screen device. Users are likely to press the ‘cook’s tools’ instead of this button.

Recipe’s action This looks like the same interface you can find on the Jamie Oliver app. The interesting thing is that on both cases the grouping of the buttons is messy. In terms of affordance, the Category/recipe filter looks like a button instead of a tab.

Location availability If a user doesn’t not accept the app request to share location this message displays.The problem here is that there is no clear ‘call to action’ how to recover from this error. There should be a link to help users enable location services for this app.

Have you used this app before? what did you think?

Instant Personalization is enabled by default and this is why Facebook is being criticized by many other website and blogs.
When you go to non Facebook websites, you don’t expect them to know who are your friends. The same issue exists when websites decide to adopt the Facebook comments box which shows your image if you are logged in to Facebook.

Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken are US Senators who decided to write a letter to Mark Zuckerberg to express their concerns about users being automatically opt-in to share their information. Apart from Instant Personalization, they were also worried about Facebook not being able to enforce the 24 hours time limit given to advertisers to view user information.

It is not the first time that Facebook raises privacy concerns and a recommendation it might be smart to visit your privacy settings every now and then to check if anything new manage to sneak away from your awareness. Facebook makes it extremely difficult to change this and as you can see below it takes five steps to disable this feature.

If you want to disable Instant Personalization follow these steps:
1. Go to Account>Privacy Settings
2. On the bottom of the screen, go to Applications and Websites and click on ‘edit your settings’
3. Go to Instant Personalization and click on ‘edit settings’
4. Close the popup window ‘Understanding Instant Personalization’
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and untick the box next to ‘Enable instant personalization on partner websites’.

You can also see a video describing how to do this here.

I was there with a group of friends and our experience was fantastic. My complements to our host who was simply amazing. She made us feel welcome and helped us choose what to eat. The food is served on top of a flat sour bread. You then get some extra rolled bread to grab the food with. It is a very nice way to share food with friends unless they are very greedy… You can easily avoid the Italian dessert. Italy has colonized Eritrea in 1935, that is the connection.