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Hi HN,

My name is Amir, and I'm the creator of UI Recipes.

I've created this product to solve the time consuming problem of trying to find the top UI patterns and latest design trends for solving a specific user task (eCommerce, search, lists, sign-ups, etc.).

I've also decided to take it one step further, and analyze those patterns and trends from a usability standpoint, then provide actionable guidelines in forms of if-then questions.

I send out a new UI recipe every Wednesday at 10 am.

My goal is to provide non-designers with weekly educational bits to learn design in 15 minutes or less, and to provide designers and product managers with a repository of validated UI design guidelines that they can use in their work.

We are also working on creating a searchable online repository of all those patterns and trends, downloadable UI kits with various design "ingredients", and a Sketch plugin to access those assets directly within the app.

Would love to hear your feedback, ideas and requests. You can also tweet us @uirecipes


My conclusion is that to have no regrets, you gotta act more, fear less, and ignore the status quo. After all, we only live once (until proven otherwise)


In other words, YOLO?


Creatng a downloadable product and selling it :)


Requires you to have some expertise with Adwords and Facebook ads, otherwise you'll blow tons of money attempting to generate leads and sell nothing. It can work though.


I've recently updated Keynotopia templates to include Android ICS UI components for Keynote and PowerPoint (http://keynotopia.com/android-prototyping-templates/)


Great resources on your site. Should you ever feel inclined to port your stuff to Axure you have at least one paying customer right here.


I think this is the most consistent UI for Android so far. It still feels a bit more like a "style guide" rather than "human interface guidelines", but it's a great step forward.

Kudos


The challenge is that we live in a culture that defines us by what we do and have. I get asked about what I do a few times a day. I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last Fall, and not once did anyone ask me that question. It's actually impolite to ask such question in France :)


I personally believe that the secret to success is doing. Whether I am failing or succeeding, I keep doing and improving what I am doing.


From a UI design perspective, I think this will alienate lots of existing Windows users, which might lead them to sticking with Win7 (XP anyone?) or moving on to OS X Lion (to which Win8 is surprisingly similar).

Microsoft is taking their phone UI and scaling it to the desktop, which is a big risk given how many people use that phone.

I give them credit for taking a risk, but IMO, this is the last nail in the coffin of Windows.


So you are saying that when people see that Windows 8 is different to what they currently use, they won't buy it, and instead they'll purchase a whole new, even more different operating system (OSX Lion)? I'm not sure I agree with that train of thought.


I'll reserve my judgement about OSX Lion until Monday when Apple talks about it along with iOS5 but I'd take this windows interface over the iOS like Icon Grid in Lion any day.


> moving on to OS X Lion (to which Win8 is surprisingly similar)

in what way is Lion surprisingly similar to win8?


My guess is both are bringing mobile UI constructs to the desktop.


Isn't taking a phone UI exactly what Apple is doing with Lion too? The large icon matrix and "full screen apps" are exactly what you see on an iPhone/iPad. Though it does feel more "optional" on the Mac relative to this video.


If Apple didn't have large multi-touch trackpads on their macbooks with a slew of natural gestures for navigating things like launchpad and mission control they WOULD be mindlessly scaling the iOS UI to the desktop... but alas, they have discernment and strong design.


Yes but Apple does not want you to poke the screen, similar interface cue but different interactivity.

Touchpad and touchscreen are comparable but not equal.


based on the demo, underlying it is still the same old Windows. At the point where he fired up Microsoft Words, it actually pulls up the usual desktop view. So it is basically adding another layer of Metro UI to adapt to touch devices. But yeah i guess you are right, if that's the only new thing in Win8, then perhaps some may consider sticking to Win7..


Another Windows Media Center. It was nice, but it seemed always a little weird to reduce the functionality when there is the normal Windows underneath it. In the end did i click my videos in the normal mode.

It's not that bad, but just a little layer over their Win7 is a little disappointing. There will still be the annoying virus scanner in the background who makes noises and you will browse the files the same way like you did in 3.11.


I looked at the video without sound, but from visuals alone I never got the impression that this was intended for the desktop.

In the demo when he switched to the "desktop" it looked pretty much like any desktop OS to me.


From the end of the video: "This is the new version of Windows. It's gonna run on laptops, it's gonna run on desktops, it's gonna run on PCs with mouse and keyboard, it's gonna run on touch slates, it's gonna run on everything. Hundreds of millions of Windows PCs powered by this new interface and new platform."


If people are swtching because the UI alienates them then I understand them sticking to Windows 7 but why would anybody switch to Lion given that its even more alienating than Windows 7.

Besides, it looks like the OS will still have the old UI if people need to use old apps.


If people are swtching because the UI alienates them then I understand them sticking to Windows 7 but why would anybody switch to Lion given that its even more alienating than Windows 7.

If you're being forced to basically adopt a new product, then you start to consider all the possibilities.


But that doesn't mean when people want to buy a new car they go out and get a boat instead. Change from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is a marginal one. Change to another platform is much larger.


Apologies for the promo link at the end of the post. The story wasn't meant to promote the product.


I don't know, you saw people being successful doing something that your product does. You were validated. Maybe it would have been better to post this on the product blog but I am behind you on this.


>Maybe it's just that, once everyone knows the rules of the game, they are reasonably successful in communicating a tiny piece of information (a single number) to each other

It's possible, but highly unlikely that a group of people playing a game for the first time will all get that successful so fast. They weren't all hackers ;-)

>That's because he thought he was supposed to, not because it was necessarily something he would normally have done.

I had the same assumption you mentioned, that's why I had to field test it for validation.

Seriously, next time you wanna poke fun at someone who tells you he just sold his startup, tell him you sold your previous 3 startups and see what happens.


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