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The UI of your project does NOT need work IMO. It looks great, functional, and you should be able to bring lot's of revenue in with the current design (assuming

The UI of your project does NOT need work IMO. It looks great, functional, and you should be able to bring lot's of revenue in with the current design (assuming the site solves a problem). Your time will probably be better spent doing marketing, user testing and customer interviews.

vortico 9y ago
I agree. Any perturbation away from the current design will make the usability worse, unless the designer is really careful about it and doesn't blindly follow modern web design trends.
drinchev 9y ago
Came here to write that. Not a business adviser or anything, but really think design / usability are good.
adventurer 9y ago
The homepage needs some work. A change/removal to the flags and maybe just a smaller font size. The job results look fine, though. I definitely wouldn't pay someone over a few thousand dollars.
justboxing 9y ago
Thank you & others who've reviewed the UI. I appreciate everyone's feedback!!! I'm glad I asked here. I'll get to work on Marketing and user testing and report back here in a few weeks! -Shiva
pedalpete 9y ago
I agree it is pretty good. I wouldn't spend too much on a designer. What you may be able to do is find students who are trying to get some stuff in their portfolio and contract to them. You don't need a lot of work, and if I were you, I'd approach it as a learning experience for both of you. You get to learn what it is like to work with a designer, what they need for future projects, what works, and what doesn't. They get some money and a working app in their portfolio. Your site is nice and clean, easy to understand. But you'd be amazed at what a few tweaks to spacing, font, etc can do to the experience. I'm not saying it needs to be done. I'm not saying it doesn't. If you decide you want to spruce it up, I think you'll see some benefit, but it may be quite small. I had the ugliest site on the web back in the day, the comments from people were that the app was amazing, but the UX was aweful. I found a designer on 99 designs (or something like that). He had just started designing. We got on quite well. In a day he had improved my site by a huge margin, and within a few weeks it was on TechCrunch. I put that down to the design changes. It made the whole thing seem more real. This was just my experience, your mileage may vary.

vortico 9y ago

I agree. Any perturbation away from the current design will make the usability worse, unless the designer is really careful about it and doesn't blindly follow modern web design trends.

drinchev 9y ago

Came here to write that. Not a business adviser or anything, but really think design / usability are good.

adventurer 9y ago

The homepage needs some work. A change/removal to the flags and maybe just a smaller font size. The job results look fine, though. I definitely wouldn't pay someone over a few thousand dollars.

justboxing 9y ago

Thank you & others who've reviewed the UI. I appreciate everyone's feedback!!! I'm glad I asked here. I'll get to work on Marketing and user testing and report back here in a few weeks! -Shiva

pedalpete 9y ago

I agree it is pretty good. I wouldn't spend too much on a designer. What you may be able to do is find students who are trying to get some stuff in their portfolio and contract to them. You don't need a lot of work, and if I were you, I'd approach it as a learning experience for both of you. You get to learn what it is like to work with a designer, what they need for future projects, what works, and what doesn't. They get some money and a working app in their portfolio. Your site is nice and clean, easy to understand. But you'd be amazed at what a few tweaks to spacing, font, etc can do to the experience. I'm not saying it needs to be done. I'm not saying it doesn't. If you decide you want to spruce it up, I think you'll see some benefit, but it may be quite small. I had the ugliest site on the web back in the day, the comments from people were that the app was amazing, but the UX was aweful. I found a designer on 99 designs (or something like that). He had just started designing. We got on quite well. In a day he had improved my site by a huge margin, and within a few weeks it was on TechCrunch. I put that down to the design changes. It made the whole thing seem more real. This was just my experience, your mileage may vary.