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| A bit of advice from Oflow. |
The best part of Oflow (App Store) is the look. It’s clean, it’s easy to understand, and it’s easy to use. There aren’t a million functions crammed into one app, and it’s easy to get to the part that you want.
The premise of the Oflow app is to make the user more creative. I’m not convinced that this is an issue that people recognize in themselves. It’s possible to recognize other people’s thought processes as being uncreative, but I would doubt that anyone self-diagnoses as uncreative and makes an effort to change that. If they did, I doubt that this app would help them. The methods to be creative that this app dispenses are generic, they remind me of the kind of thing you’d find in a blog post titled “10 Ways to be more creative right now!” It didn’t seem like Oflow was showing me any methods to be creative that I haven’t seen before.
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| This particular method made no sense to me. A hummingbird does not care about a logo. |
Needless to say, I would be surprised if anyone found this app to be useful in making them more creative. Creativity is important, and it’s something that many people could use practice in, but this app probably isn’t an effective way to become more creative.
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| I’m going to just take a nap in the middle of class. Is that cool, prof? |
I’ve also noticed that some of the tips are completely impractical if you’re actually working on things. Since I go to design school, it makes sense that I need to be creative during my classes. I doubt that taking a nap or taking a walk outside in the middle of class would be okay with most of my professors.
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| Yeah, I use a screencap of a tweet as my wallpaper. It’s not weird. |
I doubt that many people would find Oflow to be a useful app, and I don’t quite see the purpose of it – it doesn’t solve a problem, it identifies a problem and attempts to solve it in a way that doesn’t seem very well thought out.
Disclaimer: I received this app for free to review, but all opinions expressed here are my own.