[oDot]

Interestingly, I am looking for the exact opposite -- I don't want my products looking anything like other websites.

The democratization of skill-learning is splendid, but boy is it hard to find a non cookie-cutter designer these days.

If you know anyone ..

Ofek (at) nestful dot app

[imjonse]

> I don't want my products looking anything like other websites.

if your product is a personal page or art/game, sure, understandable. Otherwise for apps it is beneficial to have consistent UI. It was the case for decades on desktops, it is true to a certain degree on mobile phones, and it makes users' lives easier.

[alias_neo]

I remember fighting this one well over a decade ago when management was telling us engineers that our web, Android and iOS should all look, feel and behave the same; it took some time to convince them that what you need is not consistency across platforms but consistency _within_ platforms.

Nobody on iOS cares what/how your app looks/works on Android, they care that the UX meets the expectations they have of that OS because they're switching between apps on that platform all day every day, people actually moving Android<-->iOS are few and far between, I mean literal decade(s) time-frames that people aren't switching.

[cpursley]

Well, your customers do. Having to relearn an entire new set of UI patterns for each site/application is exhausting for regular people. Don't make your users think.

[Pet_Ant]

I miss the Windows 98 days where almost all apps used the same generic UI and the visuals drifted into the background like noise and I just saw buttons and checkboxes.

That’s the worst part of webapps is that they have their own look’n’feel. I don’t want your branding and colours. I want the functionality and get out of my way. I want my own colours and fonts.

[oDot]

I was talking just about the look of it, and not the interactivity. UX's familiarity bar is much higher than than the UI one.

Edit: And even for UX -- I am confident in saying we did not reach max usability yet. Some people (me included) are willing to take the risk of (some) unfamiliarity for potential innovation

[numpad0]

You don't start from sewing your shirt to dress like a clown, you buy a weirdest cuff links you can find, and that suffices.

Well, I might start from researching multi Kinect coordination to scan myself, but I'm not a sane person. You probably are.