Nudges to learn something new

Duolingo is one of the useful apps to learn a new language. Once you enrol and start learning, they expect you to finish some work daily based on your learning speed. 

When you haven't done any lessons on a day, they send reminders. They follow-up with reminders for few days and then, when they are fed up, they send above message, 'These reminders don't seem to be working. We'll stop sending them for now.' 

A very nice nudge :)

Maximum 30 items please

Whatsapp used to limit users to uploading X items at a time (I am not sure of the limit right now).

As soon as user uploaded more than 30 items, a message is flagged, 'Maximum 30 items please!'

Nice way to say not to kill the bandwidth.

Currency Conversion

I have written about Elk app earlier.

I had set currency conversion from USD to INR. As soon as I stepped in Denmark, The app asked me to, 'Change to DKK(Danish Krone). When I went to Sweden, the app offered to change to SEK and in Czech Republic to CZK. 

Fabulous contextual app!

Status Updates

Facebook keeps asking you, 'What's on your mind?' When you post something, it is confused.

In above screenshot, I had previously updated my status. There was no confirmation that my status was posted successfully. When I tried again, I see a message, 'This status is identical to the last one...'

Well, you should have mentioned that to me as soon as it happened and not when I try to repost something. 

Isn't that fair?

Emirates Baggage Allowance

Google is smart. It takes everyone's information and gives it to users in the most helpful form. Here is one example:

I googled for emirates check-in baggage dimensions. Google packaged this in the most friendly way using quotes and text highlighting. But, hey! I was searching this from India. And this message fails to tell about passengers traveling to/from India.

It looks like North and South America are the only two countries that Google considers important (despite knowing APAC is the fastest growing sector in Travel)

Truncated Photos on Twitter

Twitter is a great place if you want to learn from greats. 

When photos are shared on twitter, we expect to see the picture in the tweet in full view. Thanks to tiny mobile glass surfaces, it is not feasible. However, the least Twitter can do about this is to project a reasonable portion of the picture. In this case, it would be the face of the the woman, the tweet talks about.

Can we do this better, Twitter?