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CEO at UXPin (http://www.uxpin.com)

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uxpin.com 11y ago

Free and Beautiful Web UI Kit for UXPin, Axure, Sketch, PS, Omnigraffle

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mobiledesigntrends.com 12y ago

Trends in Mobile Design – 2014 – Grab a beautiful free ebook

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medium.com 12y ago

UX Started In...Ancient Greece

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

UXPin Wants to Change Design. $1.6M Raised From a16z, Freestyle and others

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medium.com 12y ago

Should Evernote’s iOS App Look Like This?

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medium.com 12y ago

3 Steps To Startup’s Productivity

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medium.com 12y ago

VCs Are Human Beings (Things you didn't know about fundraising)

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medium.com 12y ago

How To Design Flat UI Web Form?

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marcin.is 12y ago

4 Traits That Predict Fundraising Success. Do You Have What It Takes?

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marcin.is 12y ago

Startup - Your House Is on Fire. Get to Profits or Die.

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marcin.is 12y ago

European Startups Can Raise Capital in Silicon Valley BUT It’s Not Easy

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marcin.is 12y ago

Poland - The Most Important Source of Tech Innovation in next 10 years

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webdesigntrendbook.com 12y ago

Free eBook: Web Design Book of Trends 2013-2014

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www.simonstalenhag.se 12y ago

Swedish Retro-Modernism Art

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designmodo.com 12y ago

UX Design of Google Glass Apps

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uxmag.com 12y ago

User Experience vs. Speed of Development

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pw.innovationnest.co 12y ago

Establishing the VC Fund - the decision process

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marcin.is 12y ago

The Team Needs The History. Give efficiency a chance.

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marcin.is 12y ago

No Calls, Thanks. The Road to Efficiency.

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blog.uxpin.com 13y ago

Worst Design Failures

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allthingsd.com 13y ago

Former Fashion Executive and Apple Wearable Computers?

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blog.uxpin.com 13y ago

Google Glass: Gimmick or Revolution? Infographic.

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www.theatlantic.com 13y ago

Can Code Be Considered An Art Form?

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uxmag.com 13y ago

UX is not a verb

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econsultancy.com 13y ago

Five potential UX issues with biometrics

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marcin.is 13y ago

Raising the Seed Round in Silicon Valley: The Game.

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blog.uxpin.com 13y ago

Flat design dangerous?

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blog.uxpin.com 13y ago

Wireframing & Prototyping UX Design Ideas for Google Glass

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marcin.is 13y ago

3 Simple Truths about Fund Raising Game for Desperate Startups

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blog.uxpin.com 13y ago

3 Tings That Every Startup Has To Build

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OK than. Couple of reasons - Windows Mobile was a single worse case of Fits Law violation. Small interface elements hard to reach even with stylus. I remember that one of my test devices was HTC Diamond. I don't recall slower, uglier mobile device. Apart from that UI guidelines were a joke. Microsoft tried to fit Windows into a mobile device and failed. Phone 8 is a completely new approach. Just try to compare them.

Google Wave failed to address one particular useful 'use case'. The interface was a mess and people didn't know what to do with it.

Sony Remote? It was actually canceled and changed because of problems with usability. Lots of buttons with lack of clear information architecture - straight way to design hell.

Each and one of mentioned devices could be throughly analyzed. I just thought it will be more fun to list them :).

Thanks for comment anyway.

Opera 15 released 13 years ago

Right now Opera has 1.6% of market share. Safari - 4.1%. Back in 2011 - Opera had 2.5% and Safari 4.0%. You can actually see that Opera is in bad shape. And probably you're right - Opera might be popular in some communities. Globally though - it doesn't matter and its market share is actually shrinking.

Opera 15 released 13 years ago

15 releases and still almost nobody uses it. Couple of years ago Opera was a solid browser and a great hope. Today it's on the verge of being forgotten.

""hey, can you add a shadow or border something?" which basically turns it non-flat." - you killed me with that one. I must sadly agree.

Words of wisdom. Besides, I'm the one to blame. If I would try to built an honest relationship with Dave and his network during past 12 months I wouldn't need to stalk him at the Launch Festival. My point is that cold-pitching people is risky and almost disrespectful to both parties (!). Just as investors should be respected as human beings and they deserve to be treated as humans (not wallets), entrepreneurs shouldn't knee before investors and almost beg for money with their pitch- we're the one building amazing companies after all.

Thank 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!

Don'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 :).

Thank you for your kind words! Since I'm owner of UXPin (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 ;)

We've updated our landing page and now you can download ebook directly from the www.

Thanks for your feedback!

Agree 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!

Popularity 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!