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Experiment results

minimalmac:

As promised, here are the survivors of my little iPhone home screen experiment.

I promised to do the same. Here is my result:

As you can see, allot has changed. It was however within the line of expectation for me. A lot of apps moved from page 2 to page 1 and some were moved all the way to the last page. Unlike my fellow experimenter I don’t use my contacts as a gateway to other things. To me it’s actually the opposite. I don’t have my contacts app on the front page anymore since I get to my contacts trough the phone app. The result is not entirely fair right now since the Weather app is there because I’ve used it allot lately with the heavy snow we’ve been heaving over here in Europe. Normally I don’t use it allot and it will probably move to page 2 soon.

Apps you might not know are VI and Telegraaf.

VI stands for “Voetbal International” which is a dutch magazine about soccer. I use it to stay updated on the latest soccer news.

Telegraaf is the biggest news paper from The Netherlands and it has an awesome iPhone app made by a company from my home town. Use it last before I go to sleep and first thing in the morning.

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Posted at 7:17 PM 20 January 2010
minimalmac: There is is. My current iPhone home screen. It is a bit of a shame it is all going to change sometime right after I post this. See here is the deal, I have come to believe that the only icons that should be on the first screen are the ones you really use. And by use I mean at least once a week and ideally several times a day. And while I can say for certain that applies to many of the apps that you see in this screenshot, others I am less sure about. Therefore, here is the plan. With the exception of those in the “dock” area (Phone, Mail, Messages, and Safari) which I consider crucial to the entire point of even having an iPhone, I am going to clear everything from the home screen. Any apps that get accessed more than once in the course of the next week will be allowed to come back. Why more than once? Well, that disqualifies any anomalies (i.e I need to use this one thing out of the blue this particular week even though I rarely use it). I will post next week to show you what remains. Great initiative. It made me curious about my own homescreen. I’ve posted my homescreen before. I have some OCD tendencies sometimes and therefor organize everything by color. Going to follow this initiative and clean up my homescreen as-well. Look for the result next week.

minimalmac:

There is is. My current iPhone home screen. It is a bit of a shame it is all going to change sometime right after I post this.

See here is the deal, I have come to believe that the only icons that should be on the first screen are the ones you really use. And by use I mean at least once a week and ideally several times a day. And while I can say for certain that applies to many of the apps that you see in this screenshot, others I am less sure about.

Therefore, here is the plan. With the exception of those in the “dock” area (Phone, Mail, Messages, and Safari) which I consider crucial to the entire point of even having an iPhone, I am going to clear everything from the home screen. Any apps that get accessed more than once in the course of the next week will be allowed to come back. Why more than once? Well, that disqualifies any anomalies (i.e I need to use this one thing out of the blue this particular week even though I rarely use it).

I will post next week to show you what remains.

Great initiative. It made me curious about my own homescreen. I’ve posted my homescreen before. I have some OCD tendencies sometimes and therefor organize everything by color. Going to follow this initiative and clean up my homescreen as-well. Look for the result next week.

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Posted at 9:14 AM 13 January 2010
My iPhone home screen. For info: Stanza. for reading ebooks 1Password. Amazing app from Agile websolutions. Could recommend it to anyone Tweetie. Finally made the switch to Tweetie from Echofon yesterday. Really impressed :) DropBox. Started using this few months back. Love it and one of my most used apps. Evernote. Great app. Use it extensively. What does yours look like ?

My iPhone home screen.

For info:

  • Stanza. for reading ebooks
  • 1Password. Amazing app from Agile websolutions. Could recommend it to anyone
  • Tweetie. Finally made the switch to Tweetie from Echofon yesterday. Really impressed :)
  • DropBox. Started using this few months back. Love it and one of my most used apps.
  • Evernote. Great app. Use it extensively.

What does yours look like ?

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Posted at 6:49 PM 08 December 2009