UXArchive - The iPhone App Archive

Ah! There are many layers to the story! But in short, on one hand I wanted to learn front end development and on the other hand I was documenting user flows for myself to help me design the new search flow for feedly mobile. I decided to join the two and started designing and developing UX Archive with a friend (@nbarraille) and then another one (@chpolk). Since we started, about a year ago, we have had over 100,000 people using it! We didn't really expect that but it makes us more than happy to see so many people finding the site useful for their work. Now the side effect of documenting these user flows is that we are really creating a museum of how iPhone applications are working and evolving. And interestingly enough this is becoming our mission. Here is for the short version of the story, but I'm happy to talk about it more (and listen to your story) over coffee or something in SF if you like!

Saw the "User Onboarding" product from today and figured I'd share this as I use it for onboarding inspiration.

Thanks for sharing Nick! I built this with some friends and I am glad to see some people like it :) Let me know if you have any feedback, I would love to hear them!

Love it! It's also interesting to see how design trends and patterns change over time. I'm excited to look back at today's product hunts 1, 2, 5 years from now. :) @abrodo - Which newish apps have really unique or creative UX in your opinion?

Indeed! Here are good examples of user flow evolutions: Sharing on Instagram http://uxarchive.com/flows/insta... Searching on Twitter http://uxarchive.com/flows/twitt... I really like apps that have simple user flows that also give the user the possibility to do more complicated things. If you look at the evolution of search on Twitter you'll see that until a few months/iterations ago it was just a search box. Now they allow you to go deeper with filters. All that without making the search flow more complex. Bringing an application to the next level is never easy. I really like how Twitter is moving in terms of keeping their simplicity while adding depth to their service.

Today is Design Tools day and I am more than happy to answer question and get feedback an ideas!

nice convo! I'm in Arthur's team at UX Archive, I specifically cover news/reading apps and play a role in UX Archive's marketing. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you've been designing a news app, if you've seen a great app that we haven't covered yet - or with any feedback :)

Thanks for sharing, Nick! Somehow I haven't seen this one before. Side note: I worked on a little project called Mobile Game Patterns (http://mobilegamepatterns.com) a few years ago. It's really terrible, embarrassing, and hasn't been updated since I created it but it was a fun way to learn how tumblr theming works and try out oDesk. :)

@abrodo - thanks for creating this! Great resource. I'm curious to hear the backstory of how it started.

This convo makes me really excited for the future of product hunt. I think it'd be great draw some lineage between the best apps today and the best apps two years from now, all in one place. (Yay)

added Mobile Patterns from @mari18 as a related link. another great resource for UX comps and inspiration.

Indeed, she does a very good job at it :) Note that I have listed a bunch of these sites here: http://uxarchive.com/about