Critiquing Startup Mobile Apps with Glide CEO

What topic should we cover on an upcoming episode of Design Review?

Thanks Aaron and David! The Duffl team really appreciates your feedback and we'll definitely strive to make the app better <3

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: Mobile App Review 00:34 - What Glide Does? 01:07 - How to Design a Well-Designed Mobile App 01:39 - Pyrls: A Modern Medical Reference App 05:43 - Bluedot: Finding EV Charging Stations 10:03 - Duffl: Quick Snack Delivery for College Students 15:12 - BoldVoice: Hollywood Coaches and AI Feedback to Improve English 18:59 - Eden Care: Group Healthcare in Africa 23:37 - Outro

I adore this style of video, it's very useful for shifting my perspective and critiquing my own apps based on what you said about those. As someone who has designed, as well as built a lot of apps, it can be very hard to see what's wrong with them before I let the users test it.

honestly, all the app designs seemed very amateurish and not well thought out, some didn't even fulfill basic design guidelines and principles, I like that the 2 hosts were still supportive of all these products and talked in a very genuine way with the intent to help the designs to improve, which is great because what's the point in discouraging anyone even if they are not good at some point of their journey but i think these designs were tbh average and amateurish even and didn't offer much to introspect on as they were having obvious problems maybe this design review series can be divided into two categories, one where you do reviews of already proven great products and try and decipher what all they did well and infer subtle observations that can be taken and learned from great products as they will offer more to learn from and the second can be this series where you try and help designers and makers create better products by reviewing their products. anyway interesting video, Keep going guys.

4:17 5:43 6:04 12:38 14:08 15:48 23:03 there's a lot of good advice here

The first app needs more padding around the base layout container

2:57 Clickable areas can actually be a minimum of 40px square not 60px square. Primary buttons are typically between 48px - 60px height, depending on your grid system.

Great timing, I'm building a quick app MVP right now. I'll admit, I was expecting more in the UI design of these app, but agree with the UX feedback. I'll check out glide, so mission accomplished on advertising. :)

Please make more episodes like this.

My goddess I’m doing my web-application start-up on glide . Amazing talk , thank you for all the details.

22:18 "If your app is about content and doesn't have many interactions, it's often better as a website."

A point on that duffle feedback @13:44. Yes as a first time customer you'd want to finish the checkout quickly first before being presented with rewards, but if it's a college student targeted app, there's a good chance first time customers have seen their friends use it, or have been referred to it directly. If that's the case, then they would know Duffl enough to see the benefit on first purchase of a pass that skips the line for future purchases. But the way they did it could have been on the purchase confirmation page.

This is great learning for me! Please keep such videos coming!

Great to see David here. YC and Glide FTW!

In-app navigation is not nice. Every user wants to use the maps app they like so standard design is to deep link to their favorite maps app.

Better than a course. Thanks guys

Awesome job. Would love to have my app reviewed next time!

Thanks YC ❤

Loved it. Expecting more app reviews.