Offer HN: I'll review your Product/UX for free (for my blog)
I'm looking to do a weekly review of a small startup's UX/Product for a blog series I'm trying to do.
Why I can help with your design? - I'm the cofounder of and do design of a little SF startup, UpOut.com - 3 years running a small web design shop building 100+ projects (and countless more mockups) - I occasionally consult for UX for a handsome fee
...still reading?
I haven't firmed up the exact bits and pieces of the review; Likely, I'll go through the main bits of the site and provide a fairly detailed description of tweaks with a heavy focus on conversions. If you're interested in getting reviewed, please reach out to me at my email by clicking on my username.
Why am I doing this? Running UpOut full time means I only design for one site. I want to do a small series to practice my skills.
(
9 comments
| 17 points
| on HN
)
For the current reviews, I think I've decided on an outline:
General: - HOW I SEE THE PRODUCT VISION - PRODUCT/UX GOALS: Customer type - DESIGN CHOICES
---
STRIPPING: things that need to be removed + why - Elements that take away from the goal
SMALL CHANGES: under 20 hours of work - HTML/CSS changes - Image aliasing + fixes - Basic JS - Small structural (moving partials, page order)
MEDIUM CHANGES: under 10 days of work - Adding fancy stuff (unlimited scroll, timed pop ups etc.) - Page structure
LARGE CHANGES + ADD ONS: Big picture stuff - Large feature improvements/modifications - Future goals
---
Let me know if there is a preferred method to UX feedback. I plan to spend no more than an 1.5 hours to 2 hours on each startup review
Sacha Greif organized a design roundtable about WeekPlan a few weeks ago: http://blog.folyo.me/design-roundtable-weekplan/
I would love to hear your advices on "how I could increase the perceived value of the product".
Thanks!
Sounds quite generous of you! I'd love to take you up on it for one of my side projects: domainsforfriends.com
The tool is still pre-launch, but I've got nothing stopping curious visitors from checking it out.
Anyways, if you're interested, shoot me an email, it's listed on the welcome page for the site.
Mike
I haven't really launched it except to a handful of people, so traffic is basically zero. Email in my profile if you're interested. Thanks!
The website design is off the shelf from themeforest, but I've already customized it a bit, so any feedback there would also be awesome.
We're constantly benchmarking sites in U.S.