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Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Post by adraper »

schrototo wrote: post #6

Did you get the idea for this from that one footnote to Bret Victor's recent essay? If so, that's some impressive turnaround time.

Ha, I wish I could say I was that fast, although the whole thing's still very much in it's infancy sadly my turnaround time isn't quite that quick!

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Post by thehodge »

adraper wrote: post #10
thehodge wrote: post #8

I think people are taking the lean startup method of throwing a landing page up to gain intrest a little too far, this feels quite deceiving and to be honest has annoyed me that oh.. I'm just signing up to a mailing list and have to actually invite my friends to be 'front of the line'.. makes me feel like nothing has actually being built at all apart from a pretty landing page.

As the designer/developer behind this I promise you plenty is being build, we'll be ready to start inviting people to use it in the next couple of days. Sorry to have annoyed you, but there's really no better way to gauge interest/insight into what your doing early than this type of approach, it really does work out for the better in the long run.

"Sign up & Get Started Now!"

Thats exactly what your call to action says.. but thats blatantly a lie.. It gives the expectation of instant access.

"Sign up to learn more, Coming Soon, Be the first to know"

all alternative CTA's that are less deceitful.

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Post by adraper »

adambratt wrote: post #13

Love the idea but isn't this the same thing as using command+shift+ctrl+4 and then pasting into a photoshop document?

It's similar yes (and partly what it's based on, i've been doing just that for years), but not everyone has photoshop (or wants to go through the effort of screenshot-ing and organizing their clippings on their hard drive

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Post by adraper »

justjimmy wrote: post #16

How are people gushing about this service in the comments when it's not even released/available -_- I got so excited, signed up, and then nothing :(

Sorry, as was noted below the CTA was a little misleading, I've updated it since—nothing sinister was meant by it, just trying to gain insight into what people want as we put the finishing touches on the app, you should get an email in the next couple of days to start using it

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Post by gokhan »

thehodge wrote: post #14
adraper wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the designer/developer behind this I promise you plenty is being build, we'll be ready to start inviting people to use it in the next couple of days. Sorry to have annoyed you, but there's really no better way to gauge interest/insight into what your doing early than this type of approach, it really does work out for the better in the long run.

"Sign up & Get Started Now!" Thats exactly what your call to action says.. but thats blatantly a lie.. It gives the expectation of instant access. "Sign up to learn more, Coming Soon, Be the first to know" all alternative CTA's that are less deceitful.

Kinda. The popup after that says "Be first in line! We're launching soon.", before you give your email.

Exciting service. I would still be giving my email if it said "be the first to know".

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