There's been some recent studies that suggest a cooler temperature is better for quality of sleep and improves insulin sensitivity [1]. There's another company that sells pads that can lower the temperature of the bed [2].
I think Anonabox will have more success than Safeplug because it's open source. Selling a black box to the privacy conscious never sounded like a good idea.
What bugs me is the developer hadn't touched Mou in a year and was trying to sell it at one point [1]. Then some developers decided to make an open source version of it called MacDown [2], which rubbed the Mou developer the wrong way, and he and his friends were bashing it as a blatant rip off of Mou [3]. The renewed interest in the project only seemed to come about when MacDown started getting traction.
I've used Mou and I think it's pretty stable. I don't see a problem with simply charging for it now. It seems unnecessary to raise money and bring on a whole team.
As other people mentioned, most of what you described is offered through credit unions. But most credit unions are small and don't have the capacity to offer great online/mobile experiences. I would be interested to see a project to open source a solution for credit unions to customize and use to offer a better user experience.
1) The Register call-to-action isn't clear what the result will be. Does it create an event? Will it let me download the app? How is this different than creating an account in the app? Can I not create an account in the app?
2) The floating "Learn More..." is unnecessary. People know how to scroll.
3) The alternating layout communicates that they're separate features rather than steps in a process. I would explore different ways to communicate the steps.
4) Make it very clear the problem your app is solving. Like petalpete mentioned in his suggestion, "event" is vague and generic. Try to use terms that clear and specific like concert, holiday party, etc.
5) Maybe consider curating the recent images. Some of them are fairly low quality.
I'm an experienced UX Designer that can help create prototypes and wireframes, establish a strong product strategy, set up user testing, or run usability audits on your site or product and make recommendations on what to improve.
Overall I think it was a well thought out response to the petition. However, I think the exposure that Americans have to the metric system was played up. Yes, it's been taught in schools but lack of practical use in everyday life means it was quickly forgotten. From my own experience, I had no reference for rough conversions between systems until a couple years ago when I started going to a gym that had all the weights in kilos. Only then did I have some reference to how the two systems related without looking it up.
Without something that at least fakes what a typical interaction would be, I don't think anyone could give you feedback aside from whether they like the color/visual treatment.
I would move the video higher up or make the hero a video/gif of it in use. It hadn't clicked for me what the app did until I watched the video that's halfway down the page. All the information before it didn't mean anything because I didn't get the concept.
The app looks incredibly flexible. But with that, it's somewhat hard to picture how someone would use it. You have a few use cases laid out under the intro (Ideating, Task Management, Visualization, etc.) but I didn't immediately get how I could use your tool for all those things. I would expand those use cases and show how they could be accomplished with your tool (through screenshots, animated gifs, or more short video clips). I should be able to picture myself using it.
That said, it looks like a great tool. I'm looking forward to checking it out more.
Unfortunately, this is the first thing I thought of too. Around half of my coworkers are redditors and they probably wouldn't get past the name enough to give it a fighting chance.
Edit: if you don't know what it is, don't look it up. Seriously.
I see a lot of comments condemning this feature and saying it's ridiculous. However, you have to understand that people outside of the tech industry have a very different mental model of how computers work than the rest of us.
One example of this is shown in a usability study by the Baymard Institute on top ecommerce checkout processes [1]. The goal of the study was to determine best practices for checkout usability by testing the top 15 ecommerce sites. One of the more fascinating finds they made was that during the checkout process, users perceived certain fields as being more secure than others. Even though the fields were all part of the same form and on the same page, users still believed fields with a little lock icon were more secure than the rest of the fields! It didn't matter if the entire page was encrypted. Users would abandon the checkout process because the credit card fields didn't "feel secure" compared to the rest of the page.
To most of us, this looks like a frivolous feature suggested by a "UX monkey" (as one commenter put it) but don't underestimate the power of making users feel safe. For all we know, this stupid gif could have cut support calls 20%.
This is an excellent suggestion. By doing more of the work for me by informing me which heart monitors work well with your system removes one of the common barrier with adopting a new system. That is, how much effort will it take to get this set up?
I clicked on the link really excited about learning how to control the minds of my friends and family so I could finally get them to do my bidding but was slightly disappointed to learn it only helped me control my own mind.
But seriously, I'm glad someone took the time to take something as beneficial as meditation and make its impact quantifiable. I'm excited to try it out.
No part of this addresses what he did wrong or what he will do differently in the future. The title alone tells me he's just trying to get the last word in, even if it's that he's sorry.
[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24954193
[2]: https://www.chilitechnology.com/chilipad-cube