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All right.
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So in this module we're going to talk about your app listing.
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So this is the part where you go into the app store whether it's on your iPhone or your iPad and you
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type in some keywords for the app that you're searching for. Your app listing is what appears over here.
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So you get an app icon, your app name,
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you'll see the ratings of the app as well as two screen shots usually side by side.
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Now the first component of your listing that I want to talk about is the app icon.
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Now if you've done the app design course then you'll have seen me stress over and over again just how
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important design is because design is so emotional.
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It really conjures up feelings in your users. And at the end of day when a user is looking through the
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app store you know the selection process is very simple.
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It's usually down to how the product looks, whether it draws you in at the first instance and what are the
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ratings that it's got.
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So for example typically if you're searching for a To-Do list app, you know your mind will wander down
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the list and see ugly icon, ugly icon, bad reviews, bad reviews, bad reviews. So you narrowed down a huge
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list of maybe 10 apps to only two or three that look relatively good and has relatively decent reviews.
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So essentially to make your app one of those, you have to think about design you have to think about
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your app icon and your screenshots.
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So how do you go about making an app icon if you're not a graphic designer yourself?
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Well there's quite a few freelance designers out there and an easy way of reaching them is through a
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website called fiverr.com.
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Now the premise of fiverr.com is that you can pay anybody $5 for them to do a really simple task
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or a simple job for you.
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Now there's a lot of people on their who advertise their services for designing professional app icons
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and you can get an app icon designed for you know $5 which is nothing. But the thing to be wary about
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when you're procuring services on Fiverr is that 1) you have to make sure that the designs that they
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give you are for commercial use.
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So that might incur a little bit of extra cost and most of the designers will list it as an add on. But
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it just means that down the line you won't end up with a lawsuit that you infringe somebody's rights
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etc. So always look out for that.
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And if they don't have that listed be sure to message them and get something in writing.
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The second thing to note about Fiverr is that the quality is really variable.
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So there's a lot of people who pass off as designers
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and the final job that you get might not look similar to what they've displayed on their portfolio.
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But, given the fact that the cost is relatively low you should get multiple designers to do the gig for
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you so at least thinking about 5 or 6.
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Now the other thing to remember is that the images that these designers are creating for you can be,
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and sometimes I've seen it, taken from other sources.
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So they didn't actually design it themselves.
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So when you do get a design well from one of these designers, be sure to do a reverse Google search on
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that and check to make sure that they haven't basically just stolen from the Internet.
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Again Fiverr's a great platform and it has its uses.
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But just keep some of those caveats in mind when you are going about procuring services on there.
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Now another thing that I want to talk about is a website called 99designs. And this works slightly
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differently from Fiverr.
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The premise here is that you put out a gig, so you're saying that for example I want a book cover called
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becoming superhuman and it's about X Y and Z. And a whole bunch of designers will come and pitch for
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your job by producing designs.
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So the designs are already there for you to see,
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you won't get the final files or the larger files but that's fine.
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It's just about you seeing if out of any of these that you actually like. And you only pay when you decide
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that one of these is something that you would definitely want.
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So this way it means that instead of buying 5 or 6 gigs like the way that you do on Fiverr you are
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guaranteed something that you want because if there's nothing in there that you like then you don't
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have to pay anybody the gig essentially.