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We regularly receive questions concerning the permission system in Memonic. Can everyone see my notes? How do I change scope? What is default?

First of all, Memonic features three scope stages for notes – Private, Friends and Public. Private means that only you can see the note. There’s only one exception to that, if you grab a sharing link, the note can be viewed no matter what permissions are set. So be careful with sharing the link. The second scope stage – friends – enables you to make notes public to the friends you connected to within Memonic. The last one, public, will make the concerning notes readable to everyone opening your profile.

Per default, all notes are private. Permissions can be changed either when clipping or in Memonic itself. Just check the checkbox of the note (1) you want to change permissions and head over to the “Share” menu where you then can select one of the three scopes (2).

Memonic changed quite heavily in the past weeks and months – obviously. On of our biggest milestones – of which we are very proud of – is the new user interface. The completely redesigned interface was built for better functionality as well as look and feel.

“If you can’t make it good, make it BIG. If you can’t make it BIG, make it RED!” — Paul Rand

Six months ago we decided to take the brave leap of questioning our brand, UI, and core product. The result is not big or red. It’s good (and getting better with every new Sprint release). In a nutshell, here’s how we did it.

The first step was to get internal sign off on what we wanted to achieve. Having clear goals is crucial in measuring success and keeping such an involved project on track. If you are starting something from scratch, begin by filling out a simple Creative Brief. Then, even if you’ve been around for years, you should still thoroughly research your competition. Our main UI goals were to simplify the interface while adding new functionality.

Way Before

Before

After

“A brand is not what you say it is. It’s what THEY say it is.” — The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier

Some of you may remember the outrage over the Tropicana re-designed packaging. It was one of the proudest moments for user feedback and the power of social media. In order to avoid disaster, we not only reviewed user testing results and user feedback from the previous year, we also ran a few new surveys to help us understand what you want. Especially when the tricky question of color came up, we turned to you for help. Dark blue won. Thank you.

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

Once we did our homework, we started a process of iterative design. The bottom line is not to get caught up in details too early. Pixel pushing can get in the way of innovation. User testing kept us on our toes. Paper prototyping was a new tool for us and worked beautifully. Even if you only have time to recruit and run tests with five people (as was our case), the results are invaluable: because 4/5 testers thought our (then) version of the top navigation looked like Facebook, we revised the design and introduced a light grey background with dark blue links. (Watch Toni’s short video).

Other highlights during our re-design include the birth of our fearless mascot, the squirrel. Created by the talented Rahel Vils, this little critter is ready to help you gather all the web content you need.

Need more information? Here are our Top 10 UX & Design Resources. Feel free to add a Comment with your own.

IxDA
A List Apart
UX Magazine
SVA Interaction Design Blog
SwissMiss
Factoryjoe on Flickr
Lynda.com
Information is Beautiful
Letting Go of the Words
Brand Identity Essentials

If you ever wanted to hear the voice of our genius Toni, then watch this video about the new UI release. He will quickly walk you through all the new features and changes. Enjoy!

Thanks to our genius Flavio here, we were able to deploy a new version of the Chrome Extension for Memonic last week. With this new version, we’ve added some new features:

Extended organisation capabilities

With this release we deployed the new Memonic clipper, which is unique of its kind. You are able to access the new capture features as well as extended organisation capabilities to tag, save and share the clippings.

Right click menu

By popular demand, we also added a right click menu, giving you the capability of saving a selection, a picture or save the page into your inbox to read it later.

Get the new extension here. We hope that you like these enhancements. If you feel that we should add other features or have any other ideas, please share them with us, either here in the comments section, via email or through any other channel!

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