About
We could not find the perfect RSS Reader for our iPads, so we decided to design and build it ourselves.
Problem
We lacked a focus on the actual reading experience in other services.There were too many navigation features in the reading pane and the notification badges visualizing the amount of unread items, added unnecessary stress.
Solution
We wanted the main focus of the experience to be on ‘reading articles’ and thus exposed the content and hid the navigation. When opening the application the latest articles are always displayed immediately, to change source the user taps a button to open the navigation layer. Stacks rather than badges indicated whether there were many or few new items in a feed.