Introducing ReNext
Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products. The first one is a bottom-up todo list with one-handed controls. The second is a revolutionary philosophical methodology of evoke memory. And the third is a breakthrough project management app.
A bottom-up todo list with one-handed controls. A revolutionary philosophical methodology of evoke memory. A breakthrough project management app.
So, three things: A todo list, a philosophical methodology, a project management. These are not three separate products. This is one product. And we are calling it ReNext. Today, Thinfferent is going to reinvent the GTD.
Shakenal Dimension (Founder & CEO)
How does ReNext improve efficiency and productivity?
This question is very abstract. From an abstract perspective, spending less time, energy and resources to achieve the same purpose improves efficiency and productivity. From a concrete perspective, reducing unnecessary thinking, actions and processes to complete the same tasks improves efficiency and productivity.
Bottom-up for one-handed user experience:
1. Compared to one hand, when using both hands, you need one more hand to overcome gravity and stay in the air;
2. When interacting with one hand, the thumb basically stays on the surface of the iPhone screen or the edge of the iPhone. Usually, the hand in charge of interacting when interacting with both hands will rest away from the iPhone in a natural way before the next interaction, especially when there is a long time between two interacts. This bit will consume energy.
3. There is only one posture holding the iPhone in one hand. But there are two postures for holding the iPhone with both hands: curl up the fingers that are not responsible for the interaction or naturally unfold the fingers that are not responsible for the interaction. Which posture to choose requires a few milliseconds to a few seconds of thinking and decision-making time.
4. The significance of a one-handed interaction lies in its intuitiveness. In the whole process of using our iPhones, picking up and putting down the iPhone is only with one hand, and the process of switching to both hands takes a few seconds. In the process of using iPhones, we do not always maintain the posture of both hands. Every time we switch between one hand and both hands, it will waste a few milliseconds to a few seconds of thinking and decision-making time, not counting the brain power and time wasted when preparing to switch.
5. In real life, we often can only spare one hand to interact with our iPhones, such as carrying goods when shopping, carrying a briefcase at work, holding a cup of coffee, and so on.
This is the advantage of one-handed interaction from concrete world analysis. Of course, users don't need to understand it so deeply. It's our responsibility. The interaction designed for one-handed interaction does not affect the two-handed interaction experience, and the interaction designed for both hands often sacrifices the one-handed interaction experience. For this reason, Apple's iOS has also been optimizing one-handed control, such as the downward-moving search bar, in order to concentrate the operation in the middle and lower parts of the mobile phone that can be covered with one hand. The reason why iOS is not completed in one go is that iOS is huge, the massive user habits, and interaction are too complicated.
So, you can use ReNext with one hand totally to skip the two levels of thinking and decision-making, the process and action of one-handed and two-handed switching, and nonintuitive interruption.
Revolutionary philosophical methodology:
ReNext's core is an extension of the classical philosophical question, "Where I Come From, Who I Am, and Where I Am Going".
Only by knowing the trajectory on which you come from can you have a clearer self-awareness of who you are, and then you can understand the trajectory you are going. People with amnesia will never understand what others let them do. At the same time. Our brains and senses have a much deeper memory of things we have experienced than plans that we have not experienced, so memories of things we have experienced are more likely to be evoked.
We give the memory to the App to forget. So how to evoke this memory efficiently is the core of ReNext's concept, which is simple but very important. One thought becomes a Buddha, and one thought becomes a demon. This is the "one thought" to change the essence.
So this forged the birth of ReNext.
Breakthrough project management:
We are also used to traditional to-do tools. One task is completed one by one, and the software can't help us complete the association. Even if they do, the to-do with a strong correlation on the project page will be scattered by other to-dos once it returns to the Home page. But the basic unit of ReNext is a to-do group instead of a task, and it stays the same morphologically on every page. You can edit one project on one page instead of jumping from different pages to be baffled, and never be chaos, even if there are the same to-do names on one page. So you can always focus on your final goals through the to-do group with logic and coherence instead of completing fragmented tasks puzzlingly.
DESIGN OF RENEXT:
The philosophy of design of ReNext is love and nature. The design concepts of ReNext are Balance, Humanity, Optimal visual effect ratio, Global Unification, Elegant, extreme, and high efficiency. The design style of ReNext is minimalist. The main design elements of ReNext are color, font, and space.
Our most important user said:
User A
While I have mixed feelings about the portmanteau "thinfferent" I do understand the homage and on some level can appreciate the motif behind the site's Jobs-esque styled product announcement.
Meanwhile, the actual name you've given for the app "ReNext" seems a lot more intuitive and informative combination of words. Seeing the screenshots alone might give me pause as the bold design choices (or almost a total lack thereof. Keyword being "almost" as it's not actually a "total" lack of UI design -- because I do see what you're doing with color, how you're playing with space, the overall bottom-up orientation that's friendly to finger-focused gesture-driven navigation, etc) seem to go well past the "minimalist" descriptor and sit squarely in the "spartan" range of UI's... but like I said, that was just my initial impression based solely on the screenshots. But the "ReNext" name finally tied it together for me and the idea behind the app actually clicked into place (yes, even more than the thinfferent landing page or the App Store description, all of which seemed a bit too contrived at first glance. What can I say? Sometimes it's the seemingly simple choices that make the strongest impressions, moreso than a Jobs'ian tribute ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
As I'd be more than happy and willing to try out this somewhat risky, highly experimental, gesture-driven, text-based, to-do/PM/GTD app you've clearly put a lot of thought into creating (even if the choices you've made seem almost sparse, they're certainly there... heh, I'm even noticing the choices you made in designing the app's icon right now as I pen this. It almost seems like an inconsequential doodle with no real thought put behind it. Almost. That's how deceptively simple it looks. But I'm guessing that the placement and colors of the quadrants hold some significance behind it, am I right?).
User B
Loved that you're carrying on David Allen's legacy! As someone who's struggled to master GTD, I'm impressed by your dedication to making it accessible - one-handed typing, here we come!
