Path is the most elegant, fast, and beautiful iPhone app ever. As you may know, I’m kind of obsessed with documenting things. In just a short month, it has replaced Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook on my phone. The application is designed to delight and optimized for mobile.
Take their photo rendering, for example. Even if the photo you choose is still uploading in the background, it immediately jumps to your screen as soon as you select it, creating a streamlined and elegant user experience while keeping the stuff you don’t need to know about off your screen. This philosophy of intimately personalizing the user experience, only showing the stuff that is relevant to you, is something that a lot of designers don’t do in favor of a sense of irrelevant transparency, which turns into complexity, confusion, and annoyance.
Of course there are some glitches, mainly with pushing to Facebook and video uploading, I’m sure the Path team will work them out. I can’t wait to see what they have in store for the web application for viewing your history; hopefully it will have some awesome data visualization.
