Eight ways to design a beautiful app (Instagram)

“Do it for the puppies”

Those words came from 500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure. In his opening remarks, he stated that most app designs suck — take a look at the most popular ones out there, like Twitter and Facebook: their mobile experience “sucks” and McClure questioned why that is. Josh Brewer, Principal Designer at Twitter, agreed on the spot and said that Twitter was “working on it”. McClure’s point was this: designing for apps and services is much more than just design — users are “getting screwed on mobile” and people need to pay attention to that.