If This Then That (IFTTT), the service that lets users automate tasks from a long list of other mobile apps and web services, is about to launch two apps for Apple Watch.
Do Button, its iOS app for controlling hardware and software connected to the service with a single tap, and Do Note, a notepad app that uses IFTTT to save and share to other services like Google Calendar, Evernote, and Twitter, will both be receiving updates for Apple Watch by tomorrow.
With Do Button, users will be able to use IFTTT’s “recipes” to automate things like setting a Nest Thermostat to a desired temperature or turning off app controlled devices like Philips Hue with a single tap. Do Note will let users dictate notes from their wrist and automatically save or share to their favorite IFTTT connected service.
IFTTT is also bringing its Do apps to iPad— Do Note, Do Button, and Do Camera— after first releasing them on iPhone back in February on the iPhone. to the iPad.
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I think IFTTT is a fantastic service. It has some limitations and arbitrary poorly explained throttling which sometimes results in loss of data between services, but I forgive all that.
This “do button” on the other hand… it appears to be designed to be used with your butt cheeks or forehead or morning glory, or something. The iPhone app requires the unnecessary swiping of a monumental button. I hate to think what the iPad app will be like.
Even on the watch, I would prefer for there to be at least two touch points per screen (top and bottom). Maybe they don’t quite need to be round. I am just not a fan of needless swiping of pages, where each page is a single function.
The Do Button’s iphone widget also has a totally pointless space left over for a recipe button, where an additional Do button could be… because someone at IFTTT imagines that you’ll be so overcome with the need to add a recipe on-the-go, that it would be an incredible inconvenience to open the app to do that.
There are just some UI issues here. It’s not as optimised as it could be