Content Usability

Pinterest is a social media startup that is especially popular with women. According to Comscore (by way of TechCrunch) it went from zero to 10 million monthly unique visitors in 20 months, faster than any site ever. 

Pinterest lets users share photos and videos (called "pins") they have created or found on the Web and organize them into themed "pinboards". 

Pinterest's mobile webapp is full featured. It mirrors the desktop site's work flows and appears to retain all the features and functionality of its big brother but with a (mostly) single column layout.

While I like the Pinterest mobile webapp's overall design, usability and full feature set, I did have some problems using it.

• Many of the pages are slow to load, especially the initial pin feed screen. I think this is due mainly to page size. The pin feed page contains 50 large images and weighs in at a whopping 7 MB compressed.
• Pinterest seems to work best in the Android browser. It loads in most other mobile browsers but aesthetic and functional gitches are common. 

Pinterest's mobile webapp is as powerful as the desktop version and has some nice design and usability touches. But the slow page loads and numerous the bugs make it ultimately frustrating to use.