TripLog/1040
A screenshot from Stevens Creek Software’s upcoming iPhone app, TripLog/1040. I’m not even sure where to start. My favorite little touch, I think, is the way “Frequent Trips” is wrapped across two lines because it didn’t fit.
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Greg Bowers, Chris Griego, limulus, JensAyton, and 68 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Richard Faulder [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
I'm crying tears… of blood.
Scopi (59 months ago | reply)
Probably the best argument for why Apple didn't have the iPhone open to all apps for the last year. Hopefully the year of Apple UI apps will have taught most programers (if not this one) something.
limulus (59 months ago | reply)
Oh man, this just reminds me how much I miss PerversionTracker.
Brian Warren (59 months ago | reply)
Trying to find anything that's actually lined up with anything else. I like that "$ Spent" is nudged up out of line to make room for the "Latest:" label.
Proof that Apple can only get you so far in interface design. It's still yours to screw up from there.
mcritz (59 months ago | reply)
simplifysimplifyPoppyseed Bandits (59 months ago | reply)
How about the UI for their other iPhone app, the "Handy Randy" random number generator?
Caution: Shield your eyes.
the twilite kid (59 months ago | reply)
Yes, this is terrifying.
Greg Bowers (59 months ago | reply)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was mortified by this.
But then again, they are "A leading provider of software solutions for the iPhone"... looks like they think Palm OS application development will translate perfectly to the iPhone.
Shaughn David (59 months ago | reply)
Someone take his Apple Developer card away, please.
radutzan (old) (59 months ago | reply)
"This is not a joke."
Wow.
dan-apalooza (59 months ago | reply)
The question is: will this app be "accepted" by Apple for inclusion in the AppStore or is UI design going to be a deciding factor in which apps get in and which don't. As leery as I am of having one gate-keeper giving the thumbs up or the thumbs down to every app I am just as leery if having to wade through crap like this to get to the good stuff. Time will tell ...
pilkycrc (59 months ago | reply)
@dan-apalooza: It won't get accepted, the terms state that you need to follow the HIG.
Ryan Bergeman (59 months ago | reply)
Love the Twitter-blue background. Very Web 2.0.
pberry (59 months ago | reply)
I didn't know you could use FileMaker on the iPhone. Sweet!
dan-apalooza (59 months ago | reply)
Sweet relief
ismh_ [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
My iPhone is crying.
Lawrence Behan (59 months ago | reply)
Hey, at least the UI for their "Athlete's Calculator" is better.
gardnerjr (59 months ago | reply)
what is their fascination with a crazy wierd background color?
johnkung [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
Awesome! I can turn my iPod touch into my 5 year old Palm PDA!
I am Jeffrey (59 months ago | reply)
I like how this reminds me why I gave up using Palm software long ago.
Saad Mahamood (59 months ago | reply)
Shocking! Just shocking...It's like UI has come from the early 90's time-warp.
Justin Belcher (59 months ago | reply)
Fuckin A.
gregjsmith (59 months ago | reply)
Looks like it would be at home on PalmOS to me.
Neven Mrgan (59 months ago | reply)
Yeah, I'm gonna guess these people don't do a whole lot of consulting work for Apple in Cupertino...
mike3k (59 months ago | reply)
Eek!
bbrown (59 months ago | reply)
These jokers got accepted and I didn't. It's got to have been random.
Kieffer (59 months ago | reply)
I like it. I think they did a very good job of minimizing wasted space on the screen. I paid a lot of money for those 153,600 pixels, and I'd hate to see them frittered away on white ... errrm, Windex-blue space. I like the red "save data" button, too, it really makes me think twice about whether I really want to press it or not.
coyotl [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
Actually, I used to have this App on my palm. I'm guessing that they used the porting tool ShoeHorn 2.0™!
prefect (59 months ago | reply)
I seriously can't wrap my head around how I'm supposed to use that application. I gather it's an application for logging trips out of the house/office, but...
Hey, it's got rounded corners! And colorful buttons!
camh (59 months ago | reply)
Look John, you can talk up your laughable "usability" and "beauty" criticisms till the rooster crows, but the more knowledgeable and experienced PDA developers know it all comes down to features, and unreasonably light-blue backgrounds.
hansderycke (59 months ago | reply)
Part of me wants to cry, part of me wants to barf. But part of me is heartened by the thought that apparently the barrier to entry for iPhone apps is low enough that even I could do better than this. Yay!
gruber (59 months ago | reply)
I like the blue arrow button in the lower-right corner, too. “More Crap”, perhaps?
alpine_peach (59 months ago | reply)
But there's a lot more software for Windows.
The Octothorpe (59 months ago | reply)
The Application of Fail.
Have these people actually seen an iPhone?
Ian Samuel (59 months ago | reply)
I like that "Yesterday," "Today," "Other," and "Car #1" appear to be coequal choices up there at the top.
Also, "Save Data." Hahaha.
Neven Mrgan (59 months ago | reply)
Note that over at Macworld, some are actually defending this.
"When there is are a lot of different pieces of information to enter, you can put them all on a series of separate screens (e.g., entering a new name into your contact list in the iPhone Contacts app) or put them in a more crowded scenario where everything can be accomplished from the same screen."
The latter is almost NEVER a good idea, actually.
rodvaldr (59 months ago | reply)
You guys are of course right. But also a bunch of righteous zealots.
sinnerbofh (59 months ago | reply)
After barfing while laughing at the same time, all I can say is:
WTF were they thinking? were they thinking at all?
Please somebody send them back to develop Business-grade .Niet crap
(I should take a series of screen shots of our company's Business-grade .Niet crap. 'Cancel' is in a different position in every window.Shortcuts are just not there and... I better stop)
D'Arcy Norman [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
I don't know. If this isn't a joke, why am I laughing so hard?
Kyle Rove (59 months ago | reply)
I followed the link to their website and sent them comments via their contact us web form. Here's what I said:
And he responded (fairly quickly):
Sadly enough, no. I'm not a UI designer. But I do think I could use Xcode and Interface Building using the iPhone SDK to put something together that's better than this.
That blue arrow that has been mentioned is indicative of the major misunderstanding: an interface should be intuitive; that is, the interface should be distilled to its most important elements and that each element should be nearly self-explanatory in function without the user having to go out on a limb and touch it before knowing its function.
mike3k (59 months ago | reply)
I get it... this is LOLapps.
meteoricnight (59 months ago | reply)
This is why Apple explicitly said no posting screenshots until July 11 - fear that crap like this might settle into people's minds.
daddytypes (59 months ago | reply)
I don't know... that "$ Spent" button IS spaced very evenly between the totally differently colored buttons above it and the "Latest:" label. Sounds like attention to detail to me.
el frijole (59 months ago | reply)
i'm really tempted to just sit down tomorrow and make a UI for this, just to spare them further indignity, but I really have no idea how the app is supposed to work...
i guess that's the problem though, right?
*headdesk*
meteoricnight (59 months ago | reply)
I showed this to a friend of mine who uses a WinMo phone and she thought it actually looked good and that I'd sent her the link to show off a "good" UI. I think that speaks volumes for the quality of apps on other platforms (and how many people might install this...)
Aestheticmonk (59 months ago | reply)
Heading for a fairly bad trip I think. When I saw this on DaringFireball, I figured that following the link would show a iPhone front end for posting to www.Erowid.org for "Trip Reports". Perhaps I didn't get it quite wrong, as this UI might inspire few new posts there of the hairier variety! Please, someone help them! (The idea of the App is actually quite good. Especially if it links with the GPS.)
moström (59 months ago | reply)
It reminds me of some Palm apps I've used
Benjamin A. Stockwell (59 months ago | reply)
Visual Basic for iPhone? Awesome.
cioxx (59 months ago | reply)
It takes a lot of effort to make an iPhone app look absolutely shitty and this one manages to do it not only in looks but in functionality as well.
I looked at the screenshot for solid 3 minutes trying to understand what it was supposed to do and I still don't get it.
kfordham281 (59 months ago | reply)
Yikes. I have to say my favorite part is the way the "$ Spent" is aligned due to the placement of "Latest". I certainly can't claim to know much about UI design, but even I can see when something is horribly wrong.