imakesoft

As a designer I'm interested of icons (shortcuts) usage on Android. There are some apps that let you change your Home Screen icons. Are you styling your Home Screen with icons? If so, what do you look for in new icons? Is it important to "theme" all icons or only certain icons? Is it also important that the icons are matching with the wallpaper? How about renaming the shortcut, is it important?

As a designer I'm interested of widget usage on Android. I found this (old) post where HTC claims that people don't use widgets: http://www.imore.com/htc-learns-2013-what-apple-knew-back-2007-widgets-arent-widely-used

I'm a bit confused because I know many people who use widgets on Android. So, do Android users use widgets or not? I guess widgets are mainly for techies than casual non-tech-savvy users? What do you think?

I'll keep the story short and jump right into the point: Last March I attended in IxD16 conference in Helsinki, Finland.

In there I saw a great speech from Josh Seiden who talked about Learning from Live Systems but it was basically about Lean UX.

Here's the video of that speech: https://vimeo.com/159385449

Notice that at 17:48 he mentions Hacker News. I was instantly sold! :) Because I was exited of this great new community I went and search the post he refers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197147

And I tried to find the website also but it's no longer running. So, this left me puzzled. :/ Why to present such a project that doesn't even exist anymore? I really liked the speech and all but I don't understand why this project was selected to be presented. To me it seems like it wasn't that successful after all or it was so successful that it was sold. Does anyone know what happened to it? I would really liked to know. :)

Anyway that was my story which I wanted to share. Keep up the good work! :)