#Please help me out ;-;

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cedar trout
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I'm trying to re-design a marketplace-ish* app for learning purposes.

  1. I have added the example of their current app, it does not look like an app. I'm trying to make it more user friendly. My issue is. Have I made this too simplistic?

  2. It's in Lithuanian, but I have added both english and lithuanian version for you to easier understand what i'm making.

  3. I have 2 versions of the Menu section. Which way is the best to display the categories?

**Would love any sort of feedback! Be mean to me hehe
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*Marketplace-ish - why? Because this service let's you post adds, but they do not act as an e commerce services, so you cannot add items to cart. You can view them and contact the posters and then purchase item/service offline.

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here's their current app main screen, added the wrong one - whoops

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cedar trout
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Feedback?

cedar trout
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Please help me out ;-;

thick herald
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@cedar trout so I like it overall, it's decent, but the rounded corners doesn't look good. So try making it less rounded, since buttons are fully rounded and text areas aren't, they don't work well together in my opinion. Also you have this yellow gradient on bottom of the image, so first make it black, and not as visible as yellow gradient, and also move the text above the gradient, so you will make it more readable

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I hope this feedback is helpful 🙂

cedar trout
thick herald
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For the last sentence: yes, you should, but try using it in different way, this darkened image with yellow gradient doesn't look good. So maybe offer a change of the color?

cedar trout
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Thats a good idea, ill try a different approach to this. Thank you so much again! ❤️

cedar trout
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@thick herald Hi! I tried out a bit of a different approach, I have 2 versions, what do you think? I feel that I still struggle with the package part, so I tried a different layout too. I took your advice on the corners. I did not translate anything so if anything is unclear lemme know, I will translate the text

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mystic mortar
# cedar trout I'm trying to re-design a marketplace-ish* app for learning purposes. 1. I hav...

Your design is much better, good job.

I don't have much experience with Lithuanian UI design, but I'm aware in some countries/cultures, there's an inherent preference for certain design, like in Japan, more compact/information-full designs are more appreciated, and therefore a 'simplistic' design, wouldn't work as well (in many cases). But, at least from my UK/US perspective, I think you did a pretty decent job.

As for the two category sections: why not use both? You can have a 'See All' button on the right-side of the 'Categories' label (or just make it so you click on the 'Categories' label) and when you do that, the thing "expands" - otherwise, it's scroll by default.

cedar trout
# mystic mortar Your design is much better, good job. I don't have much experience with Lithuan...

Thank you for taking the time to reply!

About the cultural preferences, you got me thinking, hmm. I thought primarily the websites meant for lithuanian market looked like that because simply they were old (which they are about 10-15years old) and the mentality in the country is that if it's not broken why fix it. There have been some recent upgrades to a few lithuanian sites, but seems to me that this proccess is slow. So maybe there is something elese as to why the design does not change often. 🤷‍♂️ Will have to try and get some insights to this, thanks for the thought!

And thank you for the suggestion on the categories! I've just started out in UX/UI design so I have a loot to learn, haha 😅

mystic mortar
# cedar trout Thank you for taking the time to reply! About the cultural preferences, you go...

Yeah so, I think the best thing you should do here is to simply investigate.

I'll give you one example which is somewhat related, but mostly just a fun fact.

Google Maps, at least in the UK, is usually based on street names. "Go to XYZ Street", in "50 metres turn right". And when Google was expanding to other countries, they used the same logic, and it works in most places. But they found that people just weren't using Google Maps there "for whatever reason". And the reason wasn't because India doesn't have street names and whatnot, they certainly do... So, what the UX team at Google did is they sent people to India, and just asked people for directions to random places. And they found that, people often used landmarks. They would say "So, go like 25 metres in that direction, when you see the statue, turn right, until you see the pink shop at corner, then turn left". Things like that.

And, they took that concept, of using "Landmarks" and incorporated into their UI design (see the images below). It's not that India didn't have street names & address, or they were just behind in the times, or something, it's simply that, even though they were given the same parameters, they just took a different approach. So, rather Googling trying to change Indians themselves, they just modified their design to work for them, and found that when they made that change, the market in India adopted Google Maps much easier.

So, moral of the story, ask someone from Lithuania: "which design looks better", not just your design vs the original, but other websites too, and try and figure out how they actually view the website. It's possible, that they are indeed just behind in the times / outdated or something, but it's also possible that it's something else.

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Also, notice how the UK version uses "mi" and "ft" instead of "m", like in the Indian version.
What's weird about that is, we usually only ever use miles & feet while driving, and I've set the mode to walking. But, the fact they even care about the units used, is interesting.

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Now, I'm not saying to go to Lithuania. But, if you know people who've lived their for a long period of time, or you can ask r/Lithuania or something.

cedar trout