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UX Design for Startups
- ukjadoon 14y agoHi! Just a friendly suggestion, please correct the spelling of "conquer" on your page as it's spelled wrongly as "conquare"...that might leave a bad impression on your users. Otherwise, great job!
- piocan 14y agoGreat job.
- mtreder 14y agoThanks! :)
- nezza-_- 14y agoPlease let me download it without giving you my mail address :/ If you don't spam me, you don't need it..
- mtreder 14y agoWell you're right. I prefer you to read the book, than fear the e-mail from me :). Hope you'll like it! http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.pdf http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder...
- DoubleMalt 14y agoThank you. The mail form does not seem to work anyway ;)
- mtreder 14y agoWe've posted links to ebook on the landing page + we've changed e-mail server. The amount of requests is so huge that we have delay in sending e-mails. Apologizes :( We didn't expect such a success. Anyway you can download ebook here: * http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.pdf http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder... * http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.epub http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder... * http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.mobi http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder... Thank you so much!
- davidw 14y agoThanks. Works for .mobi, too.
- sgdesign 14y agoJust see it as a transaction: your email and permission to send you at least one newsletter (you can always unsubscribe) in exchange for the book. Asking for a download without having to give your email is a little strange, after all the book's seller is allowed to set the "price" they want.
- bobthedino 14y agoOn the front page, it should be "advice" not "advices".
- ziebak 14y agoFixed, thank you! :)
- facorreia 14y agoI tried to get the book and a message appeared on the next page: "The following From address failed: hello@uxpin.com"
- davidw 14y agoI got that too, and have not seen an email after 5 minutes.
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- omgmog 14y agoSee mtreder's reply below, for a download link. According to Twitter they're having some email issues.
- mtreder 14y agoPopularity of the ebook totally surprised us. 700 downloads in 30 minutes killed gmail. We're working on the problem right now. In about 10 minutes, we'll post links to download on the landing page. My sincere apologizes!
- camus 14y agoapp doesnt scale , that's a poor user experience , use a webservice like mailgun or sendgrid at least ...
- mtreder 14y agoWe've switched to mandrill. Cheers! :)
- grey-area 14y agogoogle apps and gmail has a 500 per day send limit - try a service like sendgrid or mandrill instead, I think most of them have a free tier.
- jofo25 14y agoAfter you submit your email, the big white sign-up box led me to believe you had to sign up to actually get the book. Only after had I signed up did I notice the little paragraph saying the email had been sent. Personally, "EBOOK WAS SENT TO YOUR E-MAIL" should be much bigger compared to sign up. I understand you want people to sign up but concerning UX, its not pleasant.
- jofo25 14y agoRereading this, I come of as not grateful. Thanks for this it looks great!
- mtreder 14y agoAgree that might be seen as a dark pattern. We were trying to play with the colors and labels to emphasize that signing up is next, not required, step. If you felt bad about it - we failed. Apologizes! We're working on the landing page right now. Thanks for your feedback!
- ziebak 14y agoFixed! Now it's bigger :) Thank you!
- zapfmann 14y agoThey should listen to Seth Godin and make submitting email optional. Earn our permission to be contacted. Trying 10 minute mail. :-) Also hey.. Why am I falling for this. I have no preview, I don't even know these guys, and it seems like it is a UX consulting shop. So their marketing worked. I know shall remember there are some lads called UXPin. Well done. But not downloading the book. Being about UX, I don't think they would be the best - making me give them my email on a viral marketing campaign. Doesn't seem to clever to me.
- blowski 14y agoI had no problem just giving my email address. As amazing as Seth Godin is, blindly following (or recommending) every one of his suggestions in every situation is not a good idea, and I doubt he would say it is either.
- ahoyhere 14y agoEr, opting in to get a freebie IS permission marketing. Exactly so. Getting a free ebook isn't compulsory.
- infinite8s 14y agoI would think that downloading the book might constitute permission to be contacted :)
- SkyMarshal 14y agoI would have thought that by now every HN'er has at least one account strictly for signups and a separate account/s for personal/business. Lets stop pretending there's some kind of cost in signing up for something like this.
- nicpottier 14y agoOn the confirmation page after you submit your email you big giant headline seems to have a typo: "UX DESIGN TOOLS BUILD BY UX DESIGNERS" Should be BUILT not BUILD no?
- ziebak 14y agoFixed, thanks!
- camus 14y agoDownloading the book is a poor user experience at first place ... just let me download it right away or even better , just let me read that thing online... and make me download the book only if i'm interested in it. That's what user experience is about.
- mtreder 14y agoWe've updated our landing page and now you can download ebook directly from the www. Thanks for your feedback!
- wildmXranat 14y agoAgreed. I know that having the email submitted might be part of a larger communication strategy, but it lowers my interest right away.
- wikwocket 14y agoWhen did this get to be a Java forum with 27 "send me the codes" posts at the bottom of each thread? User experience is indeed about making things smooth for viewers, but considering you could probably sell an eBook like this for $29 to $39, I think asking your email in exchange is fair! :) Especially considering you can unsubscribe with a click or two if you're unhappy about it.
- jaxonrice 14y agofyi if you click on the ebook link to read the pdf in the browser (ie on Chrome) and try to click back in order to sign up to uxpin then you get an error message. The ebook itself is an excellent introduction to UX.
- mtreder 14y agoThanks! We're checking it right now.
- digitalengineer 14y agothank you for the book and the good links inside. @ HN community, @mtreder, I'd love to hear what you think about Axure http://www.axure.com/ http://www.axure.com/ ? I'm currently studing it and it has a lot of great features (more than most tools), including the ability o generate a spec sheet and html/css prototype without actually requiring me to do the actual html/css just for a prototype. Have any of you got any experience with Axure? Pro's? con's?
- mtreder 14y agoThank you for your kind words! Since I'm owner of UXPin (http://uxpin.com http://uxpin.com), I shouldn't really discussing pros and cons of competitors. I really respect guys at Axure and I used Axure for couple of years. Still I've created my own prototyping and wireframing software, so you know ;)
- digitalengineer 14y agoSilly me! I scanned the ebook, looked at the examples and visited some links you put in there but hadn't yet taken a good look at your company. My apologies, sir.
- madoublet 14y agoI briefly used Axure and found it to be pretty solid. I know a lot of UX professionals that swear by it, but frankly it was not for me. For lo-fi prototypes, I still use paper. And, as I move into higher fidelity prototypes, I find it much easier to just code the prototype in HTML/CSS/JS. The primary benefit being that I can easily prototype responsive layouts without double (or triple) work, and the final product can be used as an input to the development process.
- digitalengineer 14y agoThank you! I see the ability to communicate within the file (working assumptions, feedback and priorities) as a real pro. Also; I've tried html/css and as a designer I'm just not fast enough in it. I don't have the time to keep learning design, ui, ux and html/css. Axure looks like it allows me to concentrate on the user, the flow and the ui/design without worrying about the code and all the browser-stuff related to it. The generated prototyes allow for good testing.
- DevoAKA 14y agoSweet, thanks! I will suggest that the "Email This eBook To Me" button have a 'cursor: pointer' CSS property.
- ziebak 14y agoDone:) Thanks!
- kyro 14y agoYou're asking for my email address? What're you trying to do, hack into my bank accounts? Might as well ask for my social security too! What's wrong with just giving me the ebook without expecting anything in return? Now that's good design. Anyway, overlooking that, this actually looks pretty interesting. I'll make my way through it this week!
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- happywolf 14y agoThat is why I provided an email address which I don't use frequently. I am expecting it to be spammed badly. Well...
- mtreder 14y agoDon't expect to be spammed, but rather expect to get an occasional e-mail from me (with UX-oriented stuff only). It won't be regular. It won't even be once a month. Obviously it's a form of gratitude for the effort of writing a free ebook. I don't take it too serious though. In the comments below you'll find links to the ebook :).
- ahoyhere 14y agoMy advice is not to listen to the no doubt tiny percentage of people complaining about the email delivery. Hard fact of business: if people hate commerce, they won't buy from you. It's a mistake to tailor your business around people you can't sell to… probably sounds obvious, but we're all built to respond to the squeaky wheel instead of the 4 other wheels who roll along happily. Don't hamstring your future business success simply because your offer isn't right for everyone with an "add comment" button! Email newsletters -- opt in, permission marketing, like yours -- are gold. Readers love them, and they do gangbusters for your sales!
- mtreder 14y agoThanks. That's a wise advice! Appreciate it.
- edgesrazor 14y agoI 100% agree with you. It's a 127 page book on UX design written by someone with what appears to be a great deal of knowledge on the subject. The bottom line is when you're trying to run a business, leads and exposure cost money. They wrote a book and asked for an email in return. To me, that seems like a fair trade - especially for something as critical as UX.
- learn 14y agoThey wrote the book, so it would be nice of you to at least give them an email address. If you still don't want to... PDF: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.pdf http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder... EPUB: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.epub http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder... MOBI: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder.mobi http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder...
- SkyMarshal 14y agoThanks for the ebook, a little feedback in return: After providing my email address for the ebook, I followed through and created a trial account for your site, and checked out the wireframing tool. At first glance it looks nice, but I've been a happy subscriber to Balsamiq for over a year now and have no reason to leave at this point. If there are any major advantages of UXPin over Balsamiq, it's not clear from a cursory look, which is all I have time for at the moment. I'm also somewhat locked into Balsamiq, given that I have several ongoing projects there. Hence, your 7-day trial probably won't be long enough to have any effect on people like me. Most likely I'll continue using Balsamiq for the foreseeable future, the trial will expire, and I'll forget about UXPin. An alternative that might work better, would be to have a non-expiring free tier instead of the trial, with up to, say, 3 projects or something like that. Knowing that I can experiment with UXPin in my own time, when I'm ready (say the start of a new project which could be weeks or months away), and not lose my work, or not lose access to it in 7 days, would be more likely to tempt me to take the time to try it out, and ease into it if I find it better in ways worth making the transition for. Hope that gives you a little insight into potential customers, good luck!
- mtreder 14y agoThank you very much! Lovely feedback! First of all I really respect what Peldi and Balsamiq did. Balsamiq is a decent (to say the least) wireframing tool with an amazing marketing. They deserve the number of customers they've got. UXPin is a different tool. We're a young company established by UX Designers and backed up with VC money, aiming at one goal: creation of The UX Design App. UX Design is much more than mere wireframing and we're here to provide full, well designed, solution for any web, mobile and software team, that cares for stunning user experience. If you feel that you match this description, I'm sure, pretty soon, you'll find no excuses not to join UXPin :). We're improving our tool every day and step by step we're getting closer to the ultimate goal. The trial time is extendable to 30 days (click on 'extend trial' on the top of your dashboard). What's more you can always ping us and we'll be glad to give you further time to work with UXPin. Cheers!