We decided to try something radically different with the new vocab list page, at least, different than what we had before. Before we had nice large icons giving first time users an overview of the …
Redesign #2: My Words
One thing that Skritter does rather differently from many other SRS systems out there is it coordinates studies between different groups of words. If you’re studying two lists, and they share some words, you don’t …
Redesign #1: Study Nav
So, after about a week of alpha testing we’re pushing all these changes live for everyone. Most everything is the same as before, it’s just rearranged and organized better, and hopefully easier to use. Since …
Redesigns in Alpha
Last summer, Nick, George, I, and two of our interns, Maksym and Patrick, had a series of long and spirited discussions about several key parts of our site. Our goal was to rework all the …
Skritter iPhone App Plans
There has always been tons of interest for an iPhone version of Skritter. Even with it in the FAQ, we hear this almost every day: “Is there anyway I can skritter on my iPhone?” “Well, …
Top 10 Free iPhone/iTouch Chinese-Related Apps
Thinking about downloading some free Chinese apps for your mobile device? There are tons of free Chinese language related iPhone/iPod apps out there now. If you’re in the market for some free downloads, you’ve got …
November Newsletter
We just started sending out the Skritter November Newsletter, so if you’re signed up to get them, you should see one in the next few hours. The past two months, some users didn’t receive the …
The Man Behind American Shaolin
A few months back I spent an afternoon in New Haven, Connecticut talking to my English housemate, an ex MMA fighter, about his martial arts movie collection. After watching Never Back Down, an MMA-themed feature …
A Whole Mess of Textbooks
It occurred to us recently that we haven’t been updating the community on the cool new textbooks that we have been adding. Lots of new vocabulary sources have been going live in the last month …
An Old Friend and A New Learning Resource
Many moons ago, when Skritter was quite young, we developed a relationship with a die-hard Chinese teacher from Australia. He helped us immensely by testing our primitive group features and was our most involved Scratchpad …