10 UI Ideas to Learn from Gumroad
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i'm grateful to have you point out many choices i would have glossed over at first blush (perhaps several views, even).
your comments are definitely valuable, but one thing that might make these UI posts stand out even more would be to get comments from prospective users, as if doing customer interviews. i know such activities are beyond the scope of posts like this for multiple reasons, but if it could be done, it would be amazing to see what "regular" users think/ do in the context of your break-down.
(about me: i'm a startup co-founder who isn't a trained UXD but appreciates the importance of UI and UX. apologies for not providing insight at a much higher level.)
good pt. re: comments from prospective users. you may be right about it being out of scope for me, but if companies were willing to share the videos and data they get from sites like usertesting.com, then i'd be happy to put it together with my ux posts and make it available for everyone to learn from.