Go to http://www.skritter.com/practice_new and check out the new practice page design. Let us know what you think! We’ve added a lot of stuff, most of which is ready. There are still a lot of bugs, …
Strike of the Toolbar Ninja
Nick and Scott peer-pressured me into posting another time lapse video of my design work. This video just focuses on me laying out and exporting the new practice page toolbar buttons and consists of 1300 …
A Day in the Life of a Designer
We’re still not quite done with the pinyin and definition redesign, but to keep everyone up to date before we release a public beta of our work, I thought I’d share a sort of humorous …
Pinyin and Definition Practice
We haven’t been blogging too much lately because we’ve all three been working hard on the pinyin and definition practice, which promises to be mega sweet. We’ve spent the last week or so hammering out …
Skritter Agent
“Skritter Agent hounds you, Skritter Agent helps you!” User Faceleg, also known as Michael Robinson, has completed the first version of his Skritter Agent, which is a cross-platform tray app that sits in the background …
Remembering the Hanzi
Among other textbook lists, Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 and Remembering Traditional Hanzi 1 are up and ready for consumption. I’ve been watching the progress of some Skritter users doing the character-only, composition-ordered Heisig approach, and …
Export Feature
Just put the finishing touches on a new feature: vocabulary export. You can now export all the words you are actively studying, or you can export lists. Go to the vocabulary page, where it’s listed …
Overhearing
So I have an embarrassing confession to make. Whenever I’m in a public space, and I hear someone speaking in another language, I stop talking and try to listen to whatever they’re saying on the …
Rossann hits 3000 characters
Now rossann (Anne Ross) has also learned her 3000th character on Skritter, hot on the heels of thinkbuddha. Congratulations! She joined Skritter less than five months ago and has been chewing through the hanzi like …
Japanese Textbooks
We have a new Japanese textbook up: Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. This is the third book from Japan Times. Thanks to Maksym for doing the vast majority of the work; I finally got around …