How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
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#2This article is a surprisingly useful collection of tools.
Re: How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
#3As a creative Director at UI/UX design firm http://fairpixels.pro - I’d like to highly recommend founders to build their first version on intuition. The best way to design a solid UI & UX is not from scratch, rather from a foundational prototype or v1 that’s being used by actual users. We found that the best products we helped design (where the design significantly helped the business move forward) was where the founders had a working prototype and user data to form the basis of crafting a simpler and more user friendly product.
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#4This is a surprisingly good article. As a product designer of 10+ years (having worked at Facebook, Atlassian, and now Lyft), I would recommend anyone outside of the design field to read this.
It provides a much crisper picture of what modern designers workflow looks like than other resources.
Typically when these types of guidance are shared they're littered with more harmful advice than good. For example: "Look at what other apps are doing and copy it!" Except what another product is doing may not work for your product. The design of a final product isn't just the result of visual decisions, it's also driven by things like: business objectives, budgets, team size, time constraints, tech capabilities, target market size and demographics, etc.
So to have the article call attention to things like Dribbble being home to designs that are primarily "conceptual as opposed to the finished product when it comes to real applications" was refreshing.
Great read!
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#5Good article, hits home my experience. But I’d rather have a seasoned UX designer to lead and sketch the flows rather than some one new to come up with a Frankenstein type of app.
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#6I would encourage developers to first build out their applications as a CLI. Then add just enough UI for the masses.
But still release your CLI version. Ordering food or managing stocks on the command line is fantastic!
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#7The article doesn’t mention that as a startup it makes sense to minimize novel, homegrown UI as much as possible. Unless, of course, that’s central to your product or is the product. In Pony [0]—an email service that delivers once a day—for example, I tried making the UI as familiar as possible, perhaps at risk of not making it exciting enough.
I forget who said it—maybe it was the Eameses, maybe it was the Modernist movement in general—but the best UI is invisible and stays out of the users’ way while enabling them to accomplish what they want. I believe this to be true. The best way to do this usually is to provide a familiar, non novel UI.
So yeah, you need to make sure your flows make sense, etc, but if you’re having “eureka” moments when developing UI, maybe your users will have to do the same thing just to use it.
[0]: https://www.pony.gg
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#8I would encourage developers to first build out their applications as a CLI. Then add just enough UI for the masses. But still release your CLI version. Ordering food or managing stocks on the command line is fantastic!
I just did this for an internal admin site for the first time. Really enjoy how it's going.
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#9I would encourage developers to first build out their applications as a CLI. Then add just enough UI for the masses. But still release your CLI version. Ordering food or managing stocks on the command line is fantastic!
I second this approach. Building a prototype (or core features) of an app as a CLI is an excellent way to limit scope to the essentials first, and keep separation of concerns. It allows for "remote control" of the app, through the command line (great for dev/testing) or over the network to a web GUI or mobile app, all of them interfacing with the same API.
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#10I liked their link to PageFlows, but I was wondering if an enterprise version exists. Is there something that focuses more heavily on the data side? The creation, the updating, the displaying, the analysis, the graphs, etc...
I would whip out my credit card so fast for that.