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Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by mtrimpe »

potatolicious wrote: post #34
mootothemax wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making design decisions for your app. Period. So what's your alternative? Either investing a load of time in learning, or a load of money in hiring a designer? If you don't have the time/money/talent, this solves a very real problem.

> "Either investing a load of time in learning, or a load of money in hiring a designer?" Yes. The app store era has significantly raised the stakes - it's no longer enough to ship something functional, people demand that it also be beautiful and usable. For every product niche worth tackling, there is a competing app that has had the proper love of a designer. And it will win. The success of a modern iOS app hinges…

I'd say you're witnessing the rise of what seems to be WooThemes for iOS and calling it useless.

It's probably not for you, but I would be surprised if this isn't highly valuable to a lot of people.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by andrewroycarter »

niico wrote: post #17
andrewroycarter wrote: post #16

This is really cool- I'd love to see a lot of different templates to choose from!

As this first test was quite successful, I will be releasing new UI templates soon. Also will be working on different platforms such as Android and iPad.

That sounds awesome! Looking forward to it

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by adambenayoun »

mtrimpe wrote: post #41
potatolicious wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Either investing a load of time in learning, or a load of money in hiring a designer?" Yes. The app store era has significantly raised the stakes - it's no longer enough to ship something functional, people demand that it also be beautiful and usable. For every product niche worth tackling, there is a competing app that has had the proper love of a designer. And it will win. The success of a modern iOS app hinges…

I'd say you're witnessing the rise of what seems to be WooThemes for iOS and calling it useless. It's probably not for you, but I would be surprised if this isn't highly valuable to a lot of people.

As someone who's running a marketplace with hundreds of iOS components and templates, I can certainly say that there's a need for these kind of templates.

A lot of people will use these templates as a good base to get started and release a MVP, much like people use github bootstrap or a wordpress theme and customize it to reach the market faster.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by Bill_Dimm »

niico wrote: post #2

Use the 'hackernews' promo code to get a 29$ off on the Full UI + xCode project pack.

promo code to get a 29$ off

I find it weird to offer $29 off, rather than $30 off. The whole point of having a price end in 9 like $29 is to take advantage of people thinking "It's like $20" (cheap!) rather than "It's like $30" (expensive). But, since this is a discount you want to make it look as high as possible, not as low as possible.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by Retric »

pc86 wrote: post #32
mootothemax wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making design decisions for your app. Period. So what's your alternative? Either investing a load of time in learning, or a load of money in hiring a designer? If you don't have the time/money/talent, this solves a very real problem.

Given the choices (A) Learn the obviously important skill (because if it was unimportant, there would be zero market for things like this) (B) Hire a designer (which isn't always a "load of money") (C) Spend $130 on this I'd pretty much do them in that order. If this was a free product, I'd be all for it. It would be awesome to see more free iOS native app templates. But it's not free and that's an issue. Assuming th…

Except compared to the other two 130$ is practically free. Psychologically free is awesome but 90% cheaper vs 100% cheaper is no great reason to pick the other options.

Also, just because people pay for shoes is no great reason to become a cobbler, speculation has a lot of value.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by pc86 »

Retric wrote: post #45
pc86 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the choices (A) Learn the obviously important skill (because if it was unimportant, there would be zero market for things like this) (B) Hire a designer (which isn't always a "load of money") (C) Spend $130 on this I'd pretty much do them in that order. If this was a free product, I'd be all for it. It would be awesome to see more free iOS native app templates. But it's not free and that's an issue. Assuming th…

Except compared to the other two 130$ is practically free. Psychologically free is awesome but 90% cheaper vs 100% cheaper is no great reason to pick the other options. Also, just because people pay for shoes is no great reason to become a cobbler, speculation has a lot of value.

I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that if you can spend $130 on an interface for an iOS app, you can just as easily spend $600 a few months from now on a better one.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by eloisant »

mootothemax wrote: post #28
kcbanner wrote: post #27

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Until more than one person uses this template, and you have many apps that look identical.

Until more than one person uses this template, and you have many apps that look identical. Which, as Bootstrap proves on a daily basis, is a non-problem for the majority of the world.

Well, I don't know about you but I'm a bit bored of the Bootstrap design. There are so many sites using it that now the ones it looks shallow...

...Unless they customize it heavily, but then again it's designer work.

Re: Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

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Post by wmeredith »

binaryorganic wrote: post #18

"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making design decisions for your app. Period.

Yes, that should throw all the same flags that, "No programming skills required" would if you were looking at something that promised you could build an amazing iOS app. It's marketing bullshit. Either the skills are required or it's not amazing.
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