Lab

What is new in Leo 0.6?

We pushed Leo 0.5 to a limited beta in early March and collected lots of interesting feedback. The team is listening and crunching through all that feedback and adapting Leo to improve UI/UX as well as the relevance of the underlying machine learning models. Here is a summary of the changes we are pushing out […]

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Feedly Labs has been a really interesting experience for us because it has helped us get a deeper understanding of who the Feedly community is and how we can better serve you going forward. One of the insights we learned …

How to do NLP and machine learning with Feedly

Are you passionate about the Web, reading, and NLP? Are you curious about how machine learning can help process, filter, and prioritize information more effectively? The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to leverage the content of …

Leo Research – Voice / Listen to your Feedly

A few users who are participating in the Leo lab/beta suggested that we should allow you to listen to our articles. As a result, we are running an experiment to determine if there would be value in allowing Leo to …

Experiment 08 – New Compact Magazine View Option

Listening to the murmurs in the Lab Slack channel, it seems that controlling the density of the articles is important to the community. Some users like to see a mix of images with the article summary, some people prefer to …

Experiment 07 — iPad, Power Search, and Paged Scrolling

Experiment 07 comes with 5 different parts we want to share and discuss with you: iPad/Tablet Preview, Power Search, Settings, Paged Scrolling, and Pro upgrade – all on both Android and iOS. iPad and Android Tablet After twelve weeks of …

Listening and learning – Article to article swipe

The Mobile+AI Lab is now 4,000 strong! It is an incredible learning opportunity for us. It feels great to see the community actively participate in the key design decisions. The most popular feature request from the past 2 weeks is the …

Experience 06 – Discovery and the Web

We love the Web because it is an open and distributed network that offers everyone the freedom and control to publish and follow what matters to them. We also love the web because it has enabled a new generation of …

First Five Experiments

We built the Feedly mobile application over the last five years by making one small change at a time. This steady, incremental process allowed us to focus on giving you the best desktop experience possible. Now, we are launching a …

Bug Hunt Week

The Mobile+AI Lab community is now 392 people strong! This move to a more open and transparent process has been extremely rewarding: we are collecting great ideas and getting instant feedback on some of the bolder changes we are exploring. …

Experiment 05 — Night Mode

Some of you really love to read Feedly at night, or you prefer to read in night mode all day. In Mobile+AI Lab Experiment 05, we have a new night mode theme that turns Feedly into a friendly low-light experience. …

Experiment 04 — Mark As Read

We collected lots of great insights in the last four weeks on people’s mark-as-read workflows. In Experience 04, we are adding to the lab application five different ways to mark articles as read. Option 1. Tap on the check button …

Experiment 01 — Smooth Scrolling

The first experiment of the Mobile+AI Lab is around the scrolling experience in the mobile app. The main purpose of the Feedly mobile app is to allow you to quickly skim through 50 to 100 articles, pick and read 3 …

Introducing the Mobile+AI Lab

The Feedly mobile app was created during the Google Reader shutdown storm. During the past 5 years, the app has delivered on its promise and helped millions of curious minds connect to their favorite sources and topics on the go. …