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Your homepage and app design looks very inspired by Stripe. If I was to evaluate your product, my initial reaction wouldn't be great. I think coming up with uni

by dewski 8y ago

Your homepage and app design looks very inspired by Stripe. If I was to evaluate your product, my initial reaction wouldn't be great. I think coming up with unique creative would do your product wonders. Wish you the best of luck in your product!

jamesmcintyre 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We definitely leaned towards best-practice patterns for this iteration of our landing page and Stripe's incredible landing page implementations certainly have influence. We'll be expanding our branding and identity and this, as you suggest, will include evolving our creative so we hope to shine more in that area very soon! Thanks again for taking the time @dewski!
- encoderer 8y ago
  My advice would be don’t listen to this guy. Most of your audience just will not care. Solve their problem. Listen to users. Don’t outright lift IP. That’s basically it.
  - shimon 8y ago
    To add on: your design is fine. Work on pinpointing what burning problem you solve and how your solution is better. I had a hard time imagining the answers to these, so maybe you could start with today's default solution - Slack plus integrations to every other tool - and point out the problems with that that you solve.
    - jamesmcintyre 8y ago
      Thanks so much for the feedback! We are definitely iterating on our messaging and I value this feedback, we know we're not 100% there with the messaging. The primary problem we're addressing is that of "too many apps" causing scattered information and often redundant workflows. Slack does a good job of allowing very specific "hooks" to be created, i.e. a bot which updates a channel of specific activity in a specific app. Likewise, Zapier allows users to configure "one-to-one" type automation. We designed Nifty to continuously scour all your teams' data across all of their apps and then automatically predict relevant actions or information as user's are using their existing apps. In short, Nifty is designed not just to allow the configuration of one-off, "one-to-one" integrations but to continuously suggest any number of helpful actions or data across all of your apps without any manual configuration of the integrations themselves. I know it's a wordy description and, again, we're working on that but I wanted to make sure I communicated to you the difference between our product and some of the existing solutions out there. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback, it's greatly appreciated!
  - jamesmcintyre 8y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely trying to keep our focus primarily on the core functionality right now so your advice does jibe with our current strategy!
  - dewski 8y ago
    I'm not sure why my advice should be ignored. I run an on-call rotation at GitHub and could definitely be a customer. One of their examples regards Splunk and PagerDuty, both of which we utilize and know the learning curve is up there anything to reduce the time needed to respond to an incident would be great. At first glance you could make a case this may be a product from Stripe. When I am evaluating a product and it doesn't showcase a lot of creativity I have a hard time taking it serious or recommending it to colleagues. I'd also imagine most of the audience they are marketing to _has_ heard of Stripe. For more constructive criticism, the landing page is full of skeleton UI and it's hard to imagine what I will get out of the integrations. I realize it's a mockup, but I'd imagine you already know what would be in those boxes. Instead of the 3 gray boxes, show me as a user what I will see. Is it a summary of the integration? Is it an individual issue or pull request? Is it the most recent activity for that integration? I'm also not a huge fan of the letter spacing site wide, I think removing it looks like an immediate vast improvement when removed.
    - jamesmcintyre 8y ago
      Hi dewski! Once again I really appreciate your honest feedback! I find it very valuable! I agree the letter-spacing was too much (sometimes Sketch specs do not translate well into CSS and I think this was a casualty of that!) I also agree that the screenshots are not sufficient and more context and real-world use cases need to be included, we're working on that! I hope in the very near future you'll be able to see these additions and maybe even take part in the private beta in which it definitely sounds like you'd give us great feedback! If you haven't signed up for the beta waiting list please feel free to email me at james [at] getnifty.io and I'll be sure to reach out to you as soon as we're ready for our first, early users! Thanks again dewski!
    - jonnybgood 8y ago
      > showcase a lot of creativity I have a hard time taking it serious This isn't constructive criticism. "Showcase a lot of creativity" is vague. Do you take products like Dropbox seriously? Their front-end looks like default Bootstrap.

by dewski 8y ago

jamesmcintyre 8y ago

Thanks for the feedback! We definitely leaned towards best-practice patterns for this iteration of our landing page and Stripe's incredible landing page implementations certainly have influence. We'll be expanding our branding and identity and this, as you suggest, will include evolving our creative so we hope to shine more in that area very soon! Thanks again for taking the time @dewski!

encoderer 8y ago
My advice would be don’t listen to this guy. Most of your audience just will not care. Solve their problem. Listen to users. Don’t outright lift IP. That’s basically it.
- shimon 8y ago
  To add on: your design is fine. Work on pinpointing what burning problem you solve and how your solution is better. I had a hard time imagining the answers to these, so maybe you could start with today's default solution - Slack plus integrations to every other tool - and point out the problems with that that you solve.
  - jamesmcintyre 8y ago
    Thanks so much for the feedback! We are definitely iterating on our messaging and I value this feedback, we know we're not 100% there with the messaging. The primary problem we're addressing is that of "too many apps" causing scattered information and often redundant workflows. Slack does a good job of allowing very specific "hooks" to be created, i.e. a bot which updates a channel of specific activity in a specific app. Likewise, Zapier allows users to configure "one-to-one" type automation. We designed Nifty to continuously scour all your teams' data across all of their apps and then automatically predict relevant actions or information as user's are using their existing apps. In short, Nifty is designed not just to allow the configuration of one-off, "one-to-one" integrations but to continuously suggest any number of helpful actions or data across all of your apps without any manual configuration of the integrations themselves. I know it's a wordy description and, again, we're working on that but I wanted to make sure I communicated to you the difference between our product and some of the existing solutions out there. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback, it's greatly appreciated!
- jamesmcintyre 8y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely trying to keep our focus primarily on the core functionality right now so your advice does jibe with our current strategy!
- dewski 8y ago
  I'm not sure why my advice should be ignored. I run an on-call rotation at GitHub and could definitely be a customer. One of their examples regards Splunk and PagerDuty, both of which we utilize and know the learning curve is up there anything to reduce the time needed to respond to an incident would be great. At first glance you could make a case this may be a product from Stripe. When I am evaluating a product and it doesn't showcase a lot of creativity I have a hard time taking it serious or recommending it to colleagues. I'd also imagine most of the audience they are marketing to _has_ heard of Stripe. For more constructive criticism, the landing page is full of skeleton UI and it's hard to imagine what I will get out of the integrations. I realize it's a mockup, but I'd imagine you already know what would be in those boxes. Instead of the 3 gray boxes, show me as a user what I will see. Is it a summary of the integration? Is it an individual issue or pull request? Is it the most recent activity for that integration? I'm also not a huge fan of the letter spacing site wide, I think removing it looks like an immediate vast improvement when removed.
  - jamesmcintyre 8y ago
    Hi dewski! Once again I really appreciate your honest feedback! I find it very valuable! I agree the letter-spacing was too much (sometimes Sketch specs do not translate well into CSS and I think this was a casualty of that!) I also agree that the screenshots are not sufficient and more context and real-world use cases need to be included, we're working on that! I hope in the very near future you'll be able to see these additions and maybe even take part in the private beta in which it definitely sounds like you'd give us great feedback! If you haven't signed up for the beta waiting list please feel free to email me at james [at] getnifty.io and I'll be sure to reach out to you as soon as we're ready for our first, early users! Thanks again dewski!
  - jonnybgood 8y ago
    > showcase a lot of creativity I have a hard time taking it serious This isn't constructive criticism. "Showcase a lot of creativity" is vague. Do you take products like Dropbox seriously? Their front-end looks like default Bootstrap.