Behind the scenes of Circle app design • Hacker News Board

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by stiller » Wed, May 23, 2012, 3:21 PM UTC

typeoneerror wrote: post #27

danso wrote: post #13

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Yeah, I was put off by "nice girls". first of all, they're "women". Second, yeah....just "models" will do fine. "Models" are attractive to any gender..."nice girls" caters to a male audience. Which I guess is the right assumption, and will continue to be, sadly.

Referencing "models" is weird to me to start. Now I'm thinking of a designer who has a bunch of "hot chicks" directories on his computer. The intention should be that "high quality photography" will make most designs look a lot better, not the "high quality" of the looks of the human subject, right? When you make it about "models", you've made it content-specific, and this is compounded by making it gender-specific w…

Except for the fact that every product in the world is being sold by showing pictures of attractive people using it.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by jazzylady » Wed, May 23, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

iodave wrote: post #25

danso wrote: post #23

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Have to agree...the video is, frankly, terrible in terms of product promotion. It actually made me lose interest in the app because it seemed to indicate there was not much to be excited about in the app, since so little functionality was shown. Cut it down, focus on why we should care about yet another social app.

I actually really liked the video! I think it really helped sell the story and drama of the app. I know that a lot of videos focus on the features of a particular app, but I think this video did a pretty good job of selling the benefits of the app - all while being consistent with the different branding elements. A video doesn't have to be a features list. It has to tell a story. (And it doesn't hurt that I really do…

I agree.

The video made me install the app on my Iphone. And I like your app represented on white iphone better than on black (as seen on your landing page)

But I'm not a designer so I didn't have any expectations from article or video. It was just fun and nice teaser for app for me.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by gurkendoktor » Wed, May 23, 2012, 4:21 PM UTC

Storaged wrote: post #19

The persentation's design looks nice and clean to me. However, the icon looks kind of dull. I can't see it reaching out to me or many others as an entity isolated from its context, nothing urges me to click on it to find out more if I were to notice it while on a smartphone. I think the logo has too much useless eye candy going on. You could allocate the resources of attention that are now going to multiple gradients…

I think the level of eye candy in an icon should match the operating system around it. iOS is not as simplistic as Metro and full of these gradients. Skype has removed all the gradients in their iOS app recently and it looks distractingly out of place now. The Circle icon, however, would look nice between Apple's stock apps.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by orta » Wed, May 23, 2012, 4:32 PM UTC

It's useful, not "usefull"

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by zampano » Wed, May 23, 2012, 5:02 PM UTC

sparknlaunch12 wrote: post #9

It looked pretty good until the decision making process of colour choice-blue or orange. I don't understand the rationale. So what if orange is a warm colour. I was expecting a better argument on colour choice. And why just two choices? Is there a more scientific approach to colour choice (ie colour wheel) or is it simply designer or customer choice?

As a Texan and alumni of the University of Texas, I also don't understand his comment about orange not being popular in Texas considering it is UT's school color.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by WiseWeasel » Wed, May 23, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

sparknlaunch12 wrote: post #9

It looked pretty good until the decision making process of colour choice-blue or orange. I don't understand the rationale. So what if orange is a warm colour. I was expecting a better argument on colour choice. And why just two choices? Is there a more scientific approach to colour choice (ie colour wheel) or is it simply designer or customer choice?

Indeed. Obviously the orange looks way better than the blue, though the "orange peel" texture on it might be a bit too high-contrast.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by mnicole » Wed, May 23, 2012, 6:07 PM UTC

jeffclark wrote: post #28

idan wrote: post #18

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Don't give up, don't be sorry—just fix it! Bonus: you learned something about writing copy for startups today. Every failure is an opportunity for a successful outcome.

It's OK to show some personality. It's even OK to offend some people sometimes. Correction: he learned something about writing copy for idan today.

No, Idan's point was incredibly valid and I'm glad that the creator cared enough to make efforts to fix it.

Re: Behind the scenes of Circle app design

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Post by kika » Wed, May 23, 2012, 8:41 PM UTC

idan wrote: post #11

musHo_sk wrote: post #8

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Fixed.

No, it isn't. "Nice girls"? Models are attractive people. The terms works for both sexes. Ask yourself why there has to be any reference at all to the fact that the pictures are of females . Your placeholder image leaves little doubt about that fact. I'm trying to get an idea across to you: it isn't okay to use women as sex objects in public conversation like your site. It isn't okay to single women out, even as "nic…

I literally loved the line 'lie a little'.

The guy decided not to lie and was smashed. Welcome to the 21st century western civilization. Lie a little and you'll be okay.