I signed up for a FreshBooks account today and love some of the elements they incorporated into the signup process.  After getting excited enough to grab screenshots and then write this post, I’ll tell you that I was disapointed by the interface of the actual app.  It’s not terrible, it’s just that the signup was so good.  FreshBooks clearly borrows a lot of their design sentiments from 37Signals.

Update: I’ve been using FreshBooks a bit more since this original post and the interface is actually pretty good. The base is a little bit too Web 1.0, but the timesheet screen rocks and with lots of AJAX and such.  They have four different views to enter time: daily, weekly, monthly and a pop-up start/stop timer.  The Usability Institute likes FreshBooks as well.