Offer HN: GUI redesign
To jump on the bandwagon of helping fellow HNers, I'm offering to redesign one screen of your GUI for free. Requests will be processed by first come, first serve principle. Also if there will be a lot of requests I might not be able to do all of them, but I'll try to do as much as possible.
You can see some of the stuff I did on my blog at http://retroaktive.hibreedcms.com
Note: I will focus on application design, if you need design help there is another thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831960
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[ 1670 ms ] story [ 163 ms ] threadI've added some whitespace, rearanged some elements, and slightly changed colors to get more vibrant look and feel.
Also videos are now displayed in tabs so you can have short description about each video. I hope you like it.
the website is: http://www.nearagent.com - i would be interested in trading services also.
Things that I've done:
* Search is now placed in Agent locator, I believe it is a good practice to group similar features
* This design is more application like. It should resize itself with page. That way there will be no multiple scrolls
* User info panel is designed.
I hope you like it
I would be interested in integrating their MLS data into the profile pages. What do you think?
I have an Android app that I've been working on. The primary purpose is to let users see the apps their friends have so they can discover new ones.
You can see screen grabs @ http://www.appadvocate.com/screenshots2/
But the one that I really need help on is the home screen: http://bit.ly/ackPgK
The most important things for a user to look at are Friends (shows a list of friends and how many apps they have) and Friend's apps (shows a list of apps the user doesn't have but are being used by friends).
And I'd also like to figure out a way to encourage people to invite new friends to join them.
The people in the Friends icon are too vertically staggered. It looks like one friend is apart from the rest. Maybe show one person front and center (the user) with two people behind and on either side of that person.
It’s unclear where the boundaries of the buttons are. Add borders, or a rectangular gradient behind the button.
The colors don’t match, especially the orange people and the background. I’m not sure how to fix it, but I think you should at least darken the button label text, because black matches better than gray, and it would increase contrast against the similar-brightness background.
It’s confusing how a green check represents an app, but a green plus means add a new friend. I think an app would be better represented by a rounded-corner square, or a square with an upside-down “V” cut into it like the silhouette of an “A”.
It looks like there is too much space at the bottom. Make the buttons taller to fill the screen, or show them as 5 items in a list. Showing them as a list would also solve the problem of the excess whitespace next to Find Friends; alternatively, you could center that button, but that might draw too much attention to it.
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One side project I'd like to get back to is my fork of JSettlers. Here's a screenshot of the game screen: http://imgur.com/aAokt.png
So far, I haven't given the UI any love, but hopefully your comments will inspire me.
Our website is http://www.longlongago.in an online library for children's books. Two of our common questions are (esp. new users to computers) is how it works, what plans you have. Of course both the information are available in home page! So our design is not reaching out to all users. Would be happy to see a redesign. Thanks.
1. Remove animation on frontpage. As you said, your customer want to know how it works and how much does it cost. Leave only how it works slide.
2. Add call to action
3. Create FAQ page where people can read about your service and put very visible link on frontpage.
I created a mockup of this solution and you can find it at http://212labs.com/retro/longlongago.png . I think this should already help with bigger conversion, but you should probably do some A/B testing to find right formula for your customers.
One note: You should show tweet form on click. It uses unnecessary space, and there was duplication when form is shown below the logo and link is shown above the logo.
I hope you like it.
Specifically, http://www.choiceofgames.com/romance/ could use some sprucing up. There's a lot of clutter on that page, but it's hard to decide how to trim it down. Those "share" links are pretty important to our business, but they're so ugly where they are...
(Obviously we need visual design help, too, but I recognize that's not in the scope of this offer. Over time we'll certainly want to customize the visual style for individual games, like we did for http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/ but having a nice "out of the box" design would be fantastic.)
Thanks!
dan at choiceofgames.com
If you need anything, my email hrajagopal(at)yahoooooooo.com