My name is Amir, and I'm the creator of UI Recipes.
I've created this product to solve the time consuming problem of trying to find the top UI patterns and latest design trends for solving a specific user task (eCommerce, search, lists, sign-ups, etc.).
I've also decided to take it one step further, and analyze those patterns and trends from a usability standpoint, then provide actionable guidelines in forms of if-then questions.
I send out a new UI recipe every Wednesday at 10 am.
My goal is to provide non-designers with weekly educational bits to learn design in 15 minutes or less, and to provide designers and product managers with a repository of validated UI design guidelines that they can use in their work.
We are also working on creating a searchable online repository of all those patterns and trends, downloadable UI kits with various design "ingredients", and a Sketch plugin to access those assets directly within the app.
Would love to hear your feedback, ideas and requests. You can also tweet us @uirecipes
My conclusion is that to have no regrets, you gotta act more, fear less, and ignore the status quo.
After all, we only live once (until proven otherwise)
I think this is the most consistent UI for Android so far. It still feels a bit more like a "style guide" rather than "human interface guidelines", but it's a great step forward.
The challenge is that we live in a culture that defines us by what we do and have. I get asked about what I do a few times a day. I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last Fall, and not once did anyone ask me that question. It's actually impolite to ask such question in France :)
From a UI design perspective, I think this will alienate lots of existing Windows users, which might lead them to sticking with Win7 (XP anyone?) or moving on to OS X Lion (to which Win8 is surprisingly similar).
Microsoft is taking their phone UI and scaling it to the desktop, which is a big risk given how many people use that phone.
I give them credit for taking a risk, but IMO, this is the last nail in the coffin of Windows.
>Maybe it's just that, once everyone knows the rules of the game, they are reasonably successful in communicating a tiny piece of information (a single number) to each other
It's possible, but highly unlikely that a group of people playing a game for the first time will all get that successful so fast. They weren't all hackers ;-)
>That's because he thought he was supposed to, not because it was necessarily something he would normally have done.
I had the same assumption you mentioned, that's why I had to field test it for validation.
Seriously, next time you wanna poke fun at someone who tells you he just sold his startup, tell him you sold your previous 3 startups and see what happens.
True. Some problems are not painful enough for people to take out their wallets and pay to solve.
Yet it is the founder's responsibility to make sure the benefits of their ideas are measurable and outlined in a way that makes people take out their wallet and pay ;)
I found two simple (but not necessarily easy) paths:
- Solve a problem that YOU are suffering from. Just make sure enough people have the same problem.
- Use Google keyword search ;)
Actually my experience is almost the opposite. Raising the price of the product made more people buy. There is something to be said about price/value perception.
1) If by wide screen you mean requiring a horizontal scrollbar, the answer is no. I have yet to see a good UI that's wider than a single page. If you mean layouts that fill screen width, I've had some success there (Photo sharing/video sharing websites with grid content are good examples)
2) As little as possible. A typical reaction/animation time should not take more than 300 ms. The key is to test it on slow machines and connections, and optimize for that delay.
I can say from experience that it does. As long as you create a valuable, interesting (i.e. not boring) video, it will not only increase conversion but it will rank you higher on Google search results. Video headlines are also very important. Think about them as a free way to A/B test on YouTube without paying adsense money. Similar videos with different headlines lets you find out the right words to sell your product.
I don't have the exact numbers to share, but video converted at least 200 sales the past couple of months at Keynotopia.
My name is Amir, and I'm the creator of UI Recipes.
I've created this product to solve the time consuming problem of trying to find the top UI patterns and latest design trends for solving a specific user task (eCommerce, search, lists, sign-ups, etc.).
I've also decided to take it one step further, and analyze those patterns and trends from a usability standpoint, then provide actionable guidelines in forms of if-then questions.
I send out a new UI recipe every Wednesday at 10 am.
My goal is to provide non-designers with weekly educational bits to learn design in 15 minutes or less, and to provide designers and product managers with a repository of validated UI design guidelines that they can use in their work.
We are also working on creating a searchable online repository of all those patterns and trends, downloadable UI kits with various design "ingredients", and a Sketch plugin to access those assets directly within the app.
Would love to hear your feedback, ideas and requests. You can also tweet us @uirecipes