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I would change the tagline at the top. "Welcome to the future." is way too generic. Maybe try "Wave hi to the future." or something like that. It makes the graphic to the left look like a giant hand wanting to give an iMac a high-five. Some specificity would be helpful. Also, the CTA should give some indication of what will be expected out of you on the next page. I would say something about it being in alpha and how…
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It looks nice. It doesn't matter. I'm not convinced that redesigns done in isolation are useful. As the AA designer's reply to dcurtis indicated [1]--in the prototypical example of this kind of stunt--the design can't operate in isolation from the structure and goals of the organization (even if those are dysfunctional). These "blank page" redesigns disrespect the hard work these YC companies are doing A/B testing an…
I checked the source of both sites, none of them use any front-end A/B testing services. I think it's incredibly over the top to call this disrespectful. They're great for self promotion, they're great for self improvement, and he is giving them out to the companies!
A/B testing is something that we will add in near future, but when product is still in alpha, we have to continue to focus on improving it.
This isn't about the redesign, but I just downloaded Flutter and I can't find anywhere that lists all the controls... Does it just do Play/Pause? Can you skip songs?
After downloading it, Flutter appears to only Play & Pause in iTunes and Spotify (on Mac & Windows). I imagine (and hope) that they're working on supporting more gestures and more apps!
We will also communicate things more clearly when we implement our own facelift. ;-) Thanks for your patience with us in the meantime!
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Do you know if YC has ever or will ever have that position? I've always wondered if they would have an in house designer to help.
I'm pretty sure he's a partner now, but Garry Tan used to be a resident designer for YC http://mashable.com/2011/01/14/posterous-founder-leaves-star...
That said, Garry can guide us. His job isn't do design for us... that onus is still no us! Hence, please blame us for poor design.;-)
I would change the tagline at the top. "Welcome to the future." is way too generic. Maybe try "Wave hi to the future." or something like that. It makes the graphic to the left look like a giant hand wanting to give an iMac a high-five. Some specificity would be helpful. Also, the CTA should give some indication of what will be expected out of you on the next page. I would say something about it being in alpha and how…
But the image could use something to convey this is an audio product. Something more clear than an angled shot of a music app. Maybe some headphones next to the comp, or subtly work some music notes into the header somewhere. Just spitballin, but it would be nice if the header communicated music a little more clearly
I love this concept, 37signals way back in the day used to do these UX teardowns and rebuilds via http://37signals.com/better and that had a lot to do w/building their rep for UX expertise A couple of notes from conversion side: a) Better - Your inclusion of a visually descriptive image is an improvement vs. pic of the girl - maybe as a keyframe since the vid is an important visual demo. a) Draw - Original site compa…
Also the design seems flexible enough to support percentages, so "a" won't be much of an issue.
Cute and fun. I'd try the app if it had this page. As a working designer, there's a few things I love about this guy's approach: * use real language, not lorem ipsum. Text is half of the design. * branding is just as much about giving personality as it is choosing a visual treatment, like "playfully nerdy with Jedi references" here or "sleek VIP club" like with Exec. The people that ripped on last week's mocks don't…
Unsolicited designs are definitely not disrespectful and are very much appreciated: I love to get other people's thoughts on what we can do better in all aspects of the business.