Lessons We Learned from Our Biggest UX and Design Mistakes
Feb 4 2013 by Leo Widrich, Tom Moor | 10 Comments
We’ve finally hit the 500,000-user mark at Buffer, a product that helps you share on your social media networks more efficiently. About two years ago when we started on our path to building Buffer, we knew we’d be meeting obstacles and making mistakes along the way.
One of the main things we’ve kept in mind is that making mistakes is unavoidable and that if we choose to learn from them, they’ll be helpful in giving us good guidance on how to move forward more effectively.
And I believe that it’s partly because of these mistakes that we were able to get to where we are today.
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A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites
Jan 7 2013 by Johan Johansson | 21 Comments
There’s a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best.
Google advocates creating responsive web designs, while Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability consultant, endorses the creation of dedicated mobile sites (but he was subsequently slammed by some web designers).
A third option is also gaining in popularity, where the web server renders the appropriate HTML and CSS from the same URL depending on the device a web page on the site is being requested from (which has been referred to as responsive design + server side components).
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The Winners of Dot Grid Books from Dotgrid.co
Dec 26 2012 by Jacob Gube | 4 Comments
Our giveaway of three dot grid books from Dotgrid.co has recently ended. We had over 170 Six Revisions readers participate in this giveaway! In this post, you’ll get a chance to see who the three lucky winners are.
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Free Download: WinX iPhone iPad Video Software Pack (Worth $89.85)
Dec 20 2012 by Jacob Gube | 2 Comments
From now until January 2, 2013, you can download three of Digiarty’s iPhone and iPad software applications — WinX Bluray DVD iPad Ripper, WinX iPhone Video Converter, and WinX iPhone Ringtone Maker — for free.
This software pack is normally worth $89.85, but if you download, install, and use the license code provided by them by January 2, 2013, it’s all yours for free.
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Giveaway: Dot Grid Books for Designers from Dotgrid.co
Dec 13 2012 by Jacob Gube | 178 Comments
We’ve teamed up with the founders of Dotgrid.co — makers of dot grid books for sketching and wireframing — to give out 3 Dotgrid.co dot grid books (A5) with free shipping anywhere in the world. Read on to learn how you can be one of the lucky winners.
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The Winners of Proto.io Lifetime Subscriptions
Dec 7 2012 by Jacob Gube | No Comments
We recently ran a giveaway of five lifetime subscriptions to Proto.io, a new mobile app prototyping tool. Read this post to see the Six Revisions readers who’ve won themselves a Proto.io Pro subscription that’ll never expire.
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Design Mistakes We Made in Our iPhone App
Dec 6 2012 by Avrum Laurie and Jeremy Bailey | 24 Comments
This year at FreshBooks, we released our first iPhone app.
Our company’s been around for almost 10 years, and this is truly our first new product since the launch of our cloud accounting web application.
We treated the development of our iPhone app like a blank canvas where we could apply some of our team’s most recent design principles. We also wanted to reinforce the lessons we’ve learned during the development our product.
But ultimately, the creation of our official iPhone app was an opportunity for us to learn and grow.
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