Friday, April 20, 2012

Week 12 (#3): "Draw Something" Updates

As mentioned in the previous post, 'Draw Something' is an awesomely successful app! However, when Zynga purchased the app from OMGPop a few weeks ago, the two companies agreed that the acquisition would bring new features to the game.  As promised, the app has been updated to add commenting, the ability to save drawings to your photo library, and the ability to share drawings on Facebook and Twitter directly through the app. The app was also updated to include easy undo for correcting mistakes, a pull down to refresh for updating your gaming queue quickly, and an increase in the cap of drawings from 99 to 999. Zynga is considering adding photo sharing, saving and chat abilities in the future. 


My concern with these updates is based on the theory of "if it's not broke, don't fix it." 'Draw Something' was hugely successful based on its original version and I hope adding too many new updates doesn't distract users from the app, or cause a loss of interest. I know every time Facebook undergoes an update there are many unhappy users as a result; I hope for the sake of 'Draw Something' that this isn't the same case. 


Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/tech/mobile/draw-something-app-updated/index.html?iref=allsearch

1 comment:

  1. everyone is enjoying Draw Something. Draw Something is a super fun approach to seek out out that you're a terrible artist and/or that your friends are super dumb and cannot figure anything out. This is SO cool. Make people to understand that they have Draw Something skills.
    amazing draw something

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