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What is a good user experience? Let’s find out.
UX has become a controversial field in recent years. What is it? Do we need it? At what stage in a start up do we really need it? How do we do it properly?
I had an idea that if done right might serve as a good resource for all hacker news entrepreneurs.
Why not choose a hackers-news entrepreneur’s start up idea, create a design, and let our community of hackers help iterate through on how they would improve it from a user interface and experience perspective. The interesting thing here will be to see how crowd-sourced input will improve or shape the product’s experience. To keep things simple, people could just comment with an idea for an improvement, an area that needs better aligning, a better way to do something, etc.
We’ll work together, until this entrepreneur’s design has advanced to a stage that might be considered a good example of attention to user experience.
Is anyone is interested in participating? Feel free to comment. If you have a start up, please post your general idea/needs, etc. to see if I could provide an initial design for you (free of charge), and let’s see how much we can improve it from there. This should be completely public as the goal is to create a learning tool for the whole community, to see what suggestions we as a group can come up with.
- pedalpete 16y agois this different from the many "rate my start-up" posts? I think what you'll find in many of the responses to those posts is UX feedback, along with the business/idea feedback, etc. I'm happy to help out with my input and hope it is helpful, but at the same time, I don't think I want to get involved in an iterative process of UX feedback, mostly because a) I don't think it would be efficient or effective for me or the person I'm providing the repeated feedback to, and b) I only have so much time to be introduced to new ideas/designs/etc. Unless it is a product I really care about, I don't want to go over something with only a UX eye. Personally, I just don't see HN as the place for this to happen. However, there may be an opportunity for a UX focused site where people would be willing to gather for UX feedback.
- riskish 16y agoPete- Thanks for the comments, I think you are probably right. Maybe I'll change my post to a "free design offer" for a hacker-news start up that is needing one for their prototype, and then test on my own... Any takers? =)
- mryan 16y agoHi riskish, If you are serious, I would love to take you up on that offer. I am currently working on a prototype for my gameing-related startup, and could really do with some design expertise. My email is in my profile if you would like to get in touch. With regards to the initial idea of your post, I am afraid I agree with pedalpete - while HN has some level of interest in UX, perhaps a UX-specific community would reach a higher number of potentially interested people. Great idea though - once complete, being able to show the reasoning behind each iteration of the design would be an invaluable resource.
- riskish 16y agoyes I am, I know how serious hacker-news entrepreneurs are, so I would be thrilled to help. please send me some details, is this a casual gaming site like playfish/zynga? also, are you needing design for the website or the games themself? you can discuss here, or email me. I've just added my email to my profile.
- riskish 16y agoI've posted another thread with the details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904562 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904562