app sharing-quartz

For iPhone and iWatch

By Li Xizi 1155087468

What’s Quartz app ?

• It’s a news app for iPhone .

• It’s an ongoing conversation, like

texting with someone.

• It will provide the most

important and interesting news

from around the world.

Introduction

When you first open the app, the messages show like this.

You touch on the bottom option, the conversation will go on.

Introduction

If you want to know more details about the news, click “tell me more”, or if you want to see other news, click “next” .

Here you click “the what” for further information.Then it will show like the right picture.

You can click this little arrow to read the news on the original website.e.g. This is from www.ft.com.

Introduction

You can select what alerts you want to receive.

It will only buzz you when it’s really important ; otherwise, your phone will just light up quietly.

Some of the news are from Quartz itself, some are from other news organizations like CNN, BBC, FT etc.

Sometimes there will be not only the words, but also some pictures, chart, emoji or GIFs.

My Thoughts

You cannot choose and search for the news you like, you just only wait for the push. Sometimes the chat is slow. It’s for iPhone and iWatch only.

It’s a really cool, creative and interesting design for reading news. Simple operation and interface. It’s very convenient. You don’t have to choose the pages. You just open the app, the news comes out. If you don’t like it you can skip to the next news. Whenever or wherever you have a spare moment you can catch up on the news just like chatting with your friends. All of the news are in English. It’s easy to understand and you will quickly get the most important news today with a bit of the content and improve your English skill as well.

• It is a creative way to illustrate news.

• Text messaging is the most popular smartphone feature and Quartz is text-based interaction.

• It will lead a brand new direction for presenting news.

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