For most of Lexum's development, I've been working with a very small testing circle.
That was enough while I was still changing fundamental parts of the product every few days.
But I'm starting to notice the downside.
I know where everything is.
I know what every button is supposed to do.
I know why certain decisions were made.
Which also means I'm not the right person to judge whether any of it is obvious to someone seeing Lexum for the first time.
The product has also expanded enough that I want to see how it behaves across more native language → learning language pairs.
So I'm starting to bring more people into the pre-beta.
I'm not particularly interested in "looks good" feedback at this stage.
The useful stuff is more like:
"I didn't understand what this was for."
"I expected this to happen instead."
"I wouldn't use this."
"This part was actually useful."
"I saved a few words and then had no idea what to do next."
That's the kind of feedback I'm looking for now.
If you're learning a language and wouldn't mind trying an early build, I'd love to know:
your native language + the language you're learning
Lexum — pre-beta
lexum.app
The distinction between “looks good” and “I didn't understand what this was for” is important. Curious what the first-time testers end up noticing that you completely stopped seeing yourself.