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Hey, OP here. My wife got into a daily design challenge in March 2016, and she's been doing design practices every week day for the past 4 years. I helped her

Hey, OP here. My wife got into a daily design challenge in March 2016, and she's been doing design practices every week day for the past 4 years. I helped her set up this website to share her work and maybe generate some revenue if all goes well. UIDesignDaily https://uidesigndaily.com https://uidesigndaily.com She uploaded the first 600 designs, currently at day 1059. Hoping to catch up with all the uploads for the official launch. I’ll get back with some stats and numbers about this soft launch if you’re interested.

sosuke 7y ago
I'm impressed you've been able to keep up with 1 a day. It is always interesting to see new UI ideas. Seems like all the time I need some UI or layout that I've never seen before. It all boils down to combining many other UI ideas.
- andreigaspar 7y ago
  Thanks a lot, I'm really glad you found it useful!
kohtatsu 7y ago
Yo the native advertising is super deceptive on this. I figured it was an ad she made, not an ad ad. Don't they track that your outbound click performance? Either way please address it; it's not good for the planet.
- andreigaspar 7y ago
  Hey thanks for the feedback, we'll address it for the release!
- andreigaspar 7y ago
  This might be a long shot, but could you send a reference of the type of advertisement you would be comfortable with?
  - kohtatsu 7y ago
    Anything that doesn't directly match the styling of the content is mostly fine~ Even just to get rid of the "Ad" circle image and add "advertisement" in small caps on the top or bottom of the block sounds nice. I think the Ad circle image is the source of deception.
    - andreigaspar 7y ago
      Yep that makes sense. Just tested it locally with "promoted" and it makes a difference. Probably will ditch the first ad on mobile as well. Thanks for the feedback again!
nojvek 7y ago
andreigasper, this is really cool and the designs are beautiful. Your wife has amazing willpower to be able to do this for 1059 days. Very inspiring. Just curious, what do you use to manage the website’s content? Is it some form of a database or just a plain flat json file? Also do you have plans to convert the designs to re-usable css ? Like the tailwindcss folks, this could be a big money maker if it was made up of easy to use plug and play components.
- andreigaspar 7y ago
  Hey thanks a lot for the positive vibes, I'm glad you like it. Since the website isn't finished, most of the content management is API based still. Postman API calls for 90% of stuff. The only administrative UI currently is a form for my wife to be able to upload designs. As far as storing data, the source files and designs are stored on disk, and everything else in a database (including ad images for example). The tech stack is Typescript, Node, Mongo on Kubernetes. For the blog I've set up Ghost as a CMS which is pretty cool btw, I would recommend it! As far as CSS goes, I think you are 100% right and she's working on something similar together with some friends. The project is called Flow UI (https://flow-ui.com/ https://flow-ui.com/) I am not associated with it so I don't know more details :)
  - nojvek 7y ago
    Thanks for the reply. I’ll checkout flow-ui.com. Put my email down. My context for asking the question was that I’m building https://boomadmin.com https://boomadmin.com where I’m trying to make it super easy to build easy-to-use admin/content management interface for database backed apps. Your detailed feedback is very helpful for me.
workingname 7y ago
Interested in how you're managing the content, uploads especially!
- andreigaspar 7y ago
  Well most things still work through API calls (Postman), but the front-end for the CMS might be ready in the next couple months. Right now is the only administrative UI component is the upload form that lets my wife upload her designs. The source file content is served from disk, and everything else from the database.

sosuke 7y ago

I'm impressed you've been able to keep up with 1 a day. It is always interesting to see new UI ideas. Seems like all the time I need some UI or layout that I've never seen before. It all boils down to combining many other UI ideas.

andreigaspar 7y ago
Thanks a lot, I'm really glad you found it useful!

kohtatsu 7y ago

Yo the native advertising is super deceptive on this. I figured it was an ad she made, not an ad ad. Don't they track that your outbound click performance? Either way please address it; it's not good for the planet.

andreigaspar 7y ago
Hey thanks for the feedback, we'll address it for the release!
andreigaspar 7y ago
This might be a long shot, but could you send a reference of the type of advertisement you would be comfortable with?
- kohtatsu 7y ago
  Anything that doesn't directly match the styling of the content is mostly fine~ Even just to get rid of the "Ad" circle image and add "advertisement" in small caps on the top or bottom of the block sounds nice. I think the Ad circle image is the source of deception.
  - andreigaspar 7y ago
    Yep that makes sense. Just tested it locally with "promoted" and it makes a difference. Probably will ditch the first ad on mobile as well. Thanks for the feedback again!

nojvek 7y ago

andreigasper, this is really cool and the designs are beautiful. Your wife has amazing willpower to be able to do this for 1059 days. Very inspiring. Just curious, what do you use to manage the website’s content? Is it some form of a database or just a plain flat json file? Also do you have plans to convert the designs to re-usable css ? Like the tailwindcss folks, this could be a big money maker if it was made up of easy to use plug and play components.

andreigaspar 7y ago
Hey thanks a lot for the positive vibes, I'm glad you like it. Since the website isn't finished, most of the content management is API based still. Postman API calls for 90% of stuff. The only administrative UI currently is a form for my wife to be able to upload designs. As far as storing data, the source files and designs are stored on disk, and everything else in a database (including ad images for example). The tech stack is Typescript, Node, Mongo on Kubernetes. For the blog I've set up Ghost as a CMS which is pretty cool btw, I would recommend it! As far as CSS goes, I think you are 100% right and she's working on something similar together with some friends. The project is called Flow UI (https://flow-ui.com/ https://flow-ui.com/) I am not associated with it so I don't know more details :)
- nojvek 7y ago
  Thanks for the reply. I’ll checkout flow-ui.com. Put my email down. My context for asking the question was that I’m building https://boomadmin.com https://boomadmin.com where I’m trying to make it super easy to build easy-to-use admin/content management interface for database backed apps. Your detailed feedback is very helpful for me.

workingname 7y ago

Interested in how you're managing the content, uploads especially!

andreigaspar 7y ago
Well most things still work through API calls (Postman), but the front-end for the CMS might be ready in the next couple months. Right now is the only administrative UI component is the upload form that lets my wife upload her designs. The source file content is served from disk, and everything else from the database.