Notable is one of those apps that you can instantly see value in. I’ve been a casual web designer since I was 16. I’ve experienced the challenges of designing, pitching to clients, receiving feedback and iterating. It can be a frustrating process. Luckily for me, I was only ever dealing with 1 to 3 people at most. Can you imaging if you were leading a web project that have dozens of stake-holders? The process of receiving feedback from designers, coders, marketing folk, management and users can quickly become overwhelming.
Enter Notable App – created by ZURB, an interaction design and strategy company located in Campbell, California. Notable enables all stake-holders in a web development project to review and comment on a site’s design, code, copy and SEO content. What I find most impressive about Notable is that they’ve focused on something very specific and simple – and they’ve absolutely nailed it.
Demo of Notable App
A loyal customer of Notable (Bryan Zmijewski) created the following screencast demo of the app. Although his accent is reminicent of Bill Gates, he conveys the core functionality of the product very well.
Using Notable App:
If you want a web page reviewed, you simple enter the page’s URL into the Notable App. The page’s design, code, copy & SEO content is scraped from the page and stored in your Notable App dashboard. Here you can invite others to collaboratively review the page. In relation to the design element, users can simply highlight aspects of the screen shot and attach their comments as shown above.
Reviewing code
Once you’ve finished reviewing the site’s design, you can move onto reviewing the underlying HTML, CSS & javascript code. The commenting functionality is so smooth and seamless it’s hard to believe it’s a web based app. You simply highlight the code and add your comment inline.
Reviewing META data
Search engine optimisation (SEO) has become increasingly important as companies try to drive greater conversions and loyalty through organic search results. As shown above, Notable App enables users to clearly review SEO specific data fields, add comments and start a discussion around what the correct SEO strategy should look like.
Pricing
Notable have a range of price plans from Free to $119.00 per month. The free version is particularly attractive for small freelance designers who have less than 3 stake-holders involved (You get 3GB of storage and unlimited sets). Whereas the high end plans have enhanced security, private URLs, unlimited workspaces and increased storage capacity.
