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I don't know where to look between the logo, tiles, sidebar filters, sign-up button, big text "tabs", forced uppercase, forced lowercase and that mysterious white pane at the bottom.
It all sort of makes sense and doesn't at the same time. It's a really hard one to explain. I think a first step you need to look at the typography. It's all over the place. If that's a Windows style convention, there's no saving the human race.
It's also not that useful to just have a massive tile-spread of things at the topmost levels. Keep editorial and design control over the first "Find apps" screen. Also make sure you're not suggesting things that people already have on those screens.
I'm the CEO of allmyapps. Needless to say I 100% agree that it is how installing & managing apps should have been on Windows 7!
We are on our way to v2 now... let me show you a screenshot of the upcoming version [1] (it is a HN exclusivity btw!)
While the current version (1.5) is .NET/WPF based, we've switched to full C++/Webkit for v2. Results are impressive: launch <2s even on the crappiest PC we could find, <40Mb of memory footprint... and, best of all, the UI is just "fast and fluid"(tm).
http://allmyapps.com is looking for a VP of Marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Not sure a lot of marketing guys hang out there but who knows... let's say that if someone responds here, I'll take it as a good point :)
Allmyapps is the first independent application store for Windows. Job desc can be found here:
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1332191
Congrats to the dotcloud team! I already had the luck to work with seb and sam from the dotcloud team and I can testify that they are extremely skilled and reliable guys. They won't fail you nor your servers :)
My 2 cents
