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I'm sure I'll sound horribly impolite, but why did you choose such an Apple-esque style?

You all could be a revolutionary team, but as far as I can see the UI is not a revolution at all. I'm not telling you that a drastically innovative interface is needed, but to be future-proof you should go fully-digital, if not something farther.

The interface must be perfect, cool, useful, built tightly around the user and functions, not nice.

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Thanks for the feedback. I know I probably sound redundant at this point, but we are still very early in the development this product. These screenshots are meant to show a working prototype built on our API and also to spark your imagination!

@comex for example expressed his likes about the UI, do not take my opinions as simple critics about the style. But looks like an UI that every UI designer could come up to. Well, it's pretty and curated. Thinking about it you have to account for customers/users with strong expectation from such a service, it's not that stupid to go for the well-trodden path.

I hope you're not going to be flooded by a too common design...

As another data point, I rather like this UI, and think I would prefer it over a "fully-digital" one. To each his own...

bikeshed. I for one hope that they are taking a bottom up approach to design, rather than a top down.

That was exactly what I thought when I saw that UI. I'm excited about their project, I'd seriously like to see some serious innovation there.

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