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Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#31
Looks great! The custom designer works well and the available artwork is fantastic.

One thing: maybe this is just me, but the account verification email got caught in my spam filter. If I had to guess, I would say it's because the title was "hello" - kinda spammy sounding.

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#32
post #22

I don't know if it's just me, but this page isn't loading: http://www.getuncommon.com/customize/product/13/

Hey Phreanix, Do you have Javascript disabled, by chance? JS and Flash are required to display the product configurator. I did some looking around, and I can't find another way that you might have arrived at this link (unless perhaps the JS did not initialize correctly). If you still have trouble after ensuring that JS and Flash are both available, drop me an e-mail at scott@weareinstrument.com and we'll look into it…

It would be nice if this degraded more gracefully. There are going to be people that arrive at that link without hitting the JS for whatever reason. Arriving at a blank white page is going to confuse them.

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#33
post #22

I don't know if it's just me, but this page isn't loading: http://www.getuncommon.com/customize/product/13/

Hey Phreanix, Do you have Javascript disabled, by chance? JS and Flash are required to display the product configurator. I did some looking around, and I can't find another way that you might have arrived at this link (unless perhaps the JS did not initialize correctly). If you still have trouble after ensuring that JS and Flash are both available, drop me an e-mail at scott@weareinstrument.com and we'll look into it…

It isn't working for me either. I'm on the latest version of Chrome, with both Flash and JS enabled!

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#34

I just ordered one. This is a great idea! I really like the flash tool that helps you place custom artwork on the case. The checkout process was very smooth as well. That being said, there's a problem with the custom artwork process. The vast majority of my photos are landscape, and these simply don't fit well onto a case. I had to photoshop one of my photos to add some extra sky onto the top in order to graft it ont…

Obviously being an iPhone you expect to view it in a vertical orientation, however we do provide a way to rotate the image to landscape. We're working on updating the FAQ about the bleed area. Basically since you're looking at the back of the case, it's hard to visualize the fact that the case wraps around the sides of the phone and has a slight lip around the front. The image printing process does cover that entire…

I understand. A couple of suggestions:

1) Document this better! I figured it out eventually, but there were a couple of people looking over my shoulder who wanted to "just click continue", which would have resulted in an ugly surprise later on.

2) You could auto-expand my image to cover the bleed. Basically, just take the last few pixels on each side and expand them out to the edges. That would almost always be better than plain old white, right? This is basically what I did manually with Photoshop.

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#36
I love the idea, well done guys!

A friend mentioned he's unable to upload artwork from Safari 4 on a mac, if you'd like to double check that. (it worked in firefox on the mac).

Also, $60USD shipping to Australia for a $40USD product? is that correct?

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

#37
I think it would be great to deign your own case and be able to share it from your "saved designs" list in your account. For instance, I made a cool case with a picture of mine and I would like to post it to facebook or sent it in an email to share with my friends. This would let them see my cool case and be good marketing for you.
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