Since ChinesePod launched in 2005, we have received an enormous amount of product development ideas from the community. We have incorporated a large amount of this feedback into the current service. Today, we are introducing a new section called ‘Labs’ where we all can suggest, discuss and debate new features for ChinesePod.
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Brand new to this version of the site we are introducing basic social networking features. In this section, we hope to facilitate two functions: (1) finding other users and (2) tracking conversations.
Finding Other Users
All registered users (Free Account, Basic, Premium) will automatically start a profile. First, we recognize all users will not be interested in […]
The vocabulary study section has much of the current functionality with a few enhancements.
Vocabulary Lists
First of all, vocabulary words can be added from the lesson review similar to as they can now. Once words have been saved, users can add tags to categorize them as they see fit. Instead of using ‘folders’ as […]
Lesson Discovering
While we will be publishing a new lesson every day of the week, most people will find studying lessons in this order awkward with the levels and subject matter constantly changing. With more than 500 lessons in the archive, there should be more than enough to keep everyone very busy!
We have tried to support […]
One of the biggest improvements in the new site is lesson review. In the existing site, the audio file and the lesson discussion are on one page:
and the vocabulary, expansion and exercises are on another.
Quite frankly, this is awkward so we have decided to put everything together.
The primary lesson page (above) will be open […]
In my last post Usability Improvements, I talked about parts of the current version of the site we find awkward. As we looked at various ways we could make small iterations to try to solve this issues, we realized that many of our ideas would be very difficult to implement on the existing architecture. […]
Over the next 3 weeks we will have a daily post describing some of the new features and changes coming to the next version 3 of the ChinesePod service. Continuing on from our previous post - Access Improvements - today we discuss some of the new usability improvements.
Inconsistent Translations
As a result of how the […]
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