TasteofMadisonWI

First, don’t download this. It’s for the 2022 event. DEVELOPERS (hello), why not pull the app from the store if it’s no longer relevant? Anyway, I wanted to like this app and hoped it would be usable. Unfortunately there are so many terrible things about the user interface that make that challenging. The main “home” screen is a map of venders along Capitol Square. But it’s impossible to zoom in on the image to allow it to make sense. The Restaurants section is arranged by areas surrounding the square and shows the individual food vendors in a series of scrolling blocks. But the names of the vendors use no more than 7 letters within the blocks. Selecting a block will display a screen for the vendor with details and the food items they offer (with pricing), but even that screen will truncate the vendor’s name, allowing on 16 letters to display. The menu items have little hearts that allow for indicating favorite items, but there’s no listing for these favorites, so the only way to find them is to return to the individual vendor screens. An easy fix for these issues would be to provide a setting for changing font sizes and allowing for the app display to be enlarged on the device. My sense is that event organizers are just adapting their website, understandable given this is s once a year event. Still. There are ways of adapting to small screens that make sense for that in terms of user interface. Taste of Madison needs to do better. Why make an app that’s mostly unusable?

I wanted to like this app and hoped it would be usable. Unfortunately there are so many terrible things about the user interface that make that challenging. The main “home” screen is a map of venders along Capitol Square. But it’s impossible to zoom in on the image to allow it to make sense. The Restaurants section is arranged by areas surrounding the square and shows the individual food vendors in a series of scrolling blocks. But the names of the vendors use no more than 7 letters within the blocks. Selecting a block will display a screen for the vendor with details and the food items they offer (with pricing), but even that screen will truncate the vendor’s name, allowing on 16 letters to display. The menu items have little hearts that allow for indicating favorite items, but there’s no listing for these favorites, so the only way to find them is to return to the individual vendor screens. An easy fix for these issues would be to provide a setting for changing font sizes and allowing for the app display to be enlarged on the device. My sense is that event organizers are just adapting their website, understandable given this is s once a year event. Still. There are ways of adapting to small screens that make sense for that in terms of user interface. Taste of Madison needs to do better. Why make an app that’s mostly unusable?

Hard to navigate, lots of clicking. The list of vendors are grouped by street, but not in order on the steeet A long list of vendors would be more helpful, which is what you can find on their website.

It’s not easy to navigate and the info provided is really not helpful. Have to specifically know what you’re looking for in order to find and see a menu. There is a “like” option for foods but nowhere to see all your “liked” foods. The app is also very glitchy. After clicking each restaurant, it jumps you back to the top left corner. Overall not a useful app and not at all well put together.

Good app just wish I could search by food type instead of only by restaurant name...

Kind of confusing to navigate. It would helpful to see the exact location of each vendor. Also, hearted the foods I wanted to try but did not see a master list of those items. What is the point of the hearts then?

Overall it works fine. Just a few annoying UX things, and some design decisions are questionable.

Well I downloaded to keep up with the line up. Unfortunately I can’t get it to stay open. No matter what I choose it automatically closed.