The title font is horrible imho.
How polished UI (icon) helped my iPad app's downloads (stats inside)
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Re: How polished UI (icon) helped my iPad app's downloads (stats inside)
#12How can you seriously say this "And we hired a designer on Elance to design an icon. It costs us $50, but absolutely worth the money" and then this:"Icon is super important. Make sure you hired the right talent"? As a designer I like the design, but 50 bucks? "worth the money"? I have no idea why anyone would want to sell their design for just 50 bucks. Is this designer your friend? One thing I do know for sure: If t…
This $50 for an icon is like paying $50 for a simple CMS. Of course, for $50 they get a stock icon with their name on it (like, click on Edit Text on PS and type the new one) "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" Yes, please, skeuomorphism up to 11 "because it's fashionable"
Hi @raverbashing, i read "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" somewhere, but i forgot where it was...
what's the full name of "skeuomorphism"? so that i can check it in App Store..
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
This $50 for an icon is like paying $50 for a simple CMS. Of course, for $50 they get a stock icon with their name on it (like, click on Edit Text on PS and type the new one) "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" Yes, please, skeuomorphism up to 11 "because it's fashionable"
Hi @raverbashing, i read "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" somewhere, but i forgot where it was... what's the full name of "skeuomorphism"? so that i can check it in App Store..
Google "skeuomorphism".
Re: How polished UI (icon) helped my iPad app's downloads (stats inside)
#14Highlights the need for some basic A/B testing platform within app stores, though I see the complexity that prevents it being a priority.
i dont think Apple would consider this, :-(, that's why i wrote and shared it, as Apple is unlikely to figure out for us...
Re: How polished UI (icon) helped my iPad app's downloads (stats inside)
#15The title font is horrible imho.
Appreciate for your comments, if you try it and provide more comments, that would be perfect :-)
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#16The title font is horrible imho.
Appreciate for your comments, if you try it and provide more comments, that would be perfect :-)
Personally, I think the "Padgram" font is nice. Didn't work well for "Instapin" - made the "I" look funky - but looks suitable for Padgram. I'd tighten up the space between the "P" and "a", and between the "d" and "g", but that's just my own nitpicking.
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#17Great post, and I agree with the idea that good design makes a huge difference, but I would have like to see more conclusive data. Seemed a little superficial and also like you believe the $50 icon was the source all the popularity.
I would have looked at how many people shared the app after the redesign, how many people invited friends, how many more ratings and reviews you got, how often users performed an "action" everyday, how many days elapsed between log-ins (compared to before), the percentage of "active users" vs user base etc.
Keep up the great work!
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#18The icon reminds me of Instagram. Is it possible that something as simple as that did increase the downloads?
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The $50 icons are done by offshoaring companies. They make their money by turning over designs very quickly, not paying their designers very much, and reusing designs over and over (with small modifications). None of the designs are built from scratch. Most are dreadfully ugly; this is the most attractive Elance icon I've ever seen, and I don't think it's gorgeous by any stretch. If you want a geniunely good designed…
as a young startup, it's important to balance between attractiveness and expense, Dribbble is too expensive for me...
Dribble is too expensive for just about any startup ;-) I did my own design (but thats sort of my job). It's no App but the logo involves a camera as well. Doing something/anything with a camera is difficult as everything has been done. Here's my take (upper left): http://royaltyfreemodels.nl/
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The $50 icons are done by offshoaring companies. They make their money by turning over designs very quickly, not paying their designers very much, and reusing designs over and over (with small modifications). None of the designs are built from scratch. Most are dreadfully ugly; this is the most attractive Elance icon I've ever seen, and I don't think it's gorgeous by any stretch. If you want a geniunely good designed…
as a young startup, it's important to balance between attractiveness and expense, Dribbble is too expensive for me...
Then your argument about hiring the right talent is moot. You went with what you could afford and were fortunate with the result however paying $50 for a logo on eLance isn't great advice for other startups.