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http://www.beerwhich.com/tester/loggedIn.html

It's a static prototype but you can start typing in a beer name and select one of the options from the predtive text box. After doing so try clicking "I'm Drinking."

At that point we add your beer/timestamp to the feed, and you can decide to add more details or not in the brown second step.

Let me know if you find this to be intuitive or not.

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Reasonably clean UI.

Brewery may not be meaningful for most people. What percentage of Budweiser drinkers can spell Anheiser-Busch (even if they've heard of it)? Even fewer Singha beer drinkers (most popular beer in Thailand) know of Boon Rawd brewery.

If brewery name is an important piece of data, auto-detect it based on the beer name or offer it in a dropdown after users start typing the name, e.g. Singha (Boon Rawd Brewery).

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I would agree with that - make it as simple as posting a tweet and if there's doubt which beer the user is talking about, make a suggestion dropdown. If the beer is not in the dropdown, just add it to the database (or however it's handled on your side). – Mariusz Jun 14 '11 at 11:18
Well the product is aimed at folks who like to try all types of beer (micro-brews,etc). I thinking our average user will not drink Bud :) – Sean Jun 14 '11 at 16:43
Also, we will be adding the brewery type automatically unless it does not exist right now. – Sean Jun 14 '11 at 16:50
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Anheuser-Bush? I mena, you are proving your point ;) – peterchen Jun 15 '11 at 13:18
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Yes, it seems very straight forward, My only comments are the following:

  1. Its not clear if the beer or brewery is a required field.

  2. The action of posting is a bit disorienting. Its hard to tell what happend or if it worked. Users like positive reinforcements. When you post here on stack exchange there is a orange highlight which then fades away to show you posted and where it is on the page. You could do something more simple like saying "your drink was recorded"

  3. The share button should be smaller not the whole width. Its hard to read and scan.

Good luck man, cool app you got there. Great design.

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I'd ditch the 'Brewery' selection completely. The name of the beer is probably unique within a country (so maybe a country selector would make more sense).

If it's not (eg the Czech Budweiser and US Budweiser sold in Europe) give both options.

What's going to happen if the beer isn't on the predictive text list ? (There must be a heck of a lot of localised beer types...)

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Wow great feedback. Thanks guys! We're going to add the beer to our db if it is not on the predictive text list – Sean Jun 14 '11 at 16:41
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It doesn't allow you to select from the list using the keyboard. I would need it to allow me to type in the beer and then use the arrow keys to select the beer and press enter to accept and close up the list.

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Hey Mongus, the actual app will allow for this. Thanks! – Sean Jun 14 '11 at 18:10
@sean cool - just making sure. It's amazing how many people assume you will always have one hand on the mouse! – Mongus Pong Jun 14 '11 at 18:37
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It's not clear - am I allowed to put ciders as well? I drink both, and would want to log both.

It would be a nice touch if it detected not-allowed drinks (wine?) and gave a message to explain why this is a beer-focused site.

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I am going to echo what others have said (I don't think stackexch lets me "vote up" other answers yet.)

Make it so that the person only enters in one predictive box, not two... thus remove "brewery." And if you had brewery because you were also hoping that that would assist in the process of learning NEW beers, then I would say, make the third item in the predictive dropdown be "none of these are the one!", and choosing that from the dropdown would take the user to another nice clean page which allows the beer AND its brewery to be added.

Cool stuff anyway, congratulations. And get Singha in there! that's what I'm drinkin.

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