We do the research

You do the design



Proper design research requires downloading and using lots of apps, looking at hundreds of UI patterns, and staying up to speed with the latest design trends.



And we know how much time this takes, because we do it on a regular basis for our own design work.



For each user task (sign-up, search, filtering, onboarding, etc.), we collect hundreds of screenshots from the most popular apps, reverse engineer design them to find common patterns, analyze them from a usabilty standpoint, and create a set of guidelines to help us design similar user tasks.



We believe that sharing our findings and guidelines in the form of UI recipes will help non-designers learn UX best practices from the top apps out there, and will save designers and product managers the time required to do the same research and analysis that we did, so they can just focus on designing the best apps.



We are also building a searchable online database of top app patterns, latest design trends and downloadable UI recipes, and a Sketch plugin to access and insert them directly from within the app.