If you're looking for a free, open-source alternative to the Font Awesome icon library you should check the MIT-licensed Phosphor icon library. Clean designs, over 7k icons 🤯
Friends. I’m looking for work. I’m a UX designer/researcher, information architect, and UI designer/developer. I bring over two decades of experience to the table. I’m also an accessibility/usability expert.
If you have a need I’d love to talk with you. If you know folks, I’d love a boost. Thank you! 🙌🏻
On desktop, click "Settings > show top bar (on)" to get a navbar at the top of the page that lets you easily sort between the default home feed, magazines you are subscribed to, and a list of random magazines to check out :)
see attached image, but basically having the images on the right side makes it so hard to "read" a post with an image, going back and forth with your eyes to "get" the whole post. So much easier to just put the images between the up-/downvote buttons and the text post....
I would like to endorse other minor web apps in the #Fediverse, but most of them are full of UI glitches, are incomplete and downright buggy looking odd things.
From my designer point of view #Mastodon and #Pixelfed are the only effective ones, because they speak to people who are used to proper visual design language (read: Non-nerds, non-engineers, the regular people and design oriented people).
Things like #BookWyrm, #Lemmy, #Friendica and newer niche apps cause reactions like: "What is this?", they look like back end is fine but nobody is in charge of the design and the UI has no direction whatsoever. It's the general culprit in the programming world: A back end developer thinks everything is fine when we add a CSS framework and that's that.
If we just get the UI right everywhere, we get more people to the #Fediverse. I just wish there was more #CSS/design people willing to contribute. #UI#UIDesign
This has to be the most infuriating bug report I've ever submitted. I went to type in my 2FA code on a website - but no numbers appeared on screen. Obviously, I was an idiot and had forgotten to press the NumLock button. D'oh! I toggled it on and typed again. No numbers appeared. I […]
My lovely wife is looking for her first job as #ux and #ui#designer and I would deeply appreciate a boost (here or on #LinkedIn) if you know someone who might be interested in hiring her.
I switched industries a couple years ago and it's tough to find your first job without any proper experience, took me 5 months. Maybe it will be faster for her. 🙂
Some people say they don't want to join the Fediverse or Mastodon, because they think the UI sucks. As a front end developer, a designer-kind of a person who creates user interfaces, I agree. Most of the web clients on the Fedi are horrendous, even Mastodon by default. There's lots of room for improvement.
We should really focus on how to make it more pleasing to the eye, more modern and more pleasant. This should not be a nerd network, just for geeks to geek out. This is not IRC or BBS.
As long as Mastodon for instance looks like it's designed by a back end engineer, contains font-awesome icons, looks like 2010, and stuff like that, being open and free is not good reason enough for many. I'm not bashing it, Mastodon is not the worst out there, in fact in my honest opinion Mastodon user experience is far better than Akkoma or Calckey for example. It's also more accessible than many modern UIs, for example my visual impaired wife prefers the Vanilla Mastodon UI over my #BirdUI modifications, she has some small tiny improvements of her own like distinguishing the colors in the action buttons as they have no proper contrast in any of the default themes. But that's it. She likes it as it is. So it cannot be that bad. However, it could be better overall.
#OpenSource doesn't mean the product should look like it's created in a basement by a math teacher. For some people Mastodon UX is sufficient (it even is for me, I like it enough and it doesn't prevent me from using it), but it should be WORLD CLASS. I don't say the answer is #MastodonBirdUI but it should be something much more modern and minimal than the current default UI. Pixelfed's developer is a designer oriented, Pixelfed is indeed an example of an awesome Fediverse app experience throughout the web and apps. That is how it should be.
Tuba, the Mastodon app for Linux, has rolled out its latest version with a fresh UI, leveraging the new features of libadwaita 1.4. From a 'full-height' sidebar to a revamped navigation and 'carded' post appearance, it's a sleek update for Mastodon users on Linux.
I just could boost the post of @hbuchel but that would just result in "another boost in your timeline" that is easily overscrolled.
Instead I would like to share this post with you in a separate post.
I really feel the is post from the other side. I'm not a web designer, I'm a frontend developer that's desperately searching for years for proper web designers and always wondered why there aren't any anymore.
It's basically an extinct profession. Killed by men and I was witnessing that multiple times in the last 17 years I've worked in this area.
Funfact: I wanted to be a web designer back then but was pushed out of the design part multiple times by my employers, because "we have the girls for that". 🤢
As I still wanted to "build the whole thing" I went the other route and became a full stack developer (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL). A much more accepted role as a cis male.
The result? I can't design anything anymore. I can communicate with designers that lack technical understanding of the web but I try to push for years to get these people time to get the technical knowledge… But even in a lead position that's much more difficult than you might expect.
Anyways, read this article, it's awesome and every bit is true. And sad.
Perfect Freehand lets you draw smoth, good looking shapes and lines. 🤩 〰️ You can export them to SVG and there is even a #Figma Plugin and #python library!
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Handy UI tip for former Reddit users
On desktop, click "Settings > show top bar (on)" to get a navbar at the top of the page that lets you easily sort between the default home feed, magazines you are subscribed to, and a list of random magazines to check out :)
images on the left side would make kbin easier to read
see attached image, but basically having the images on the right side makes it so hard to "read" a post with an image, going back and forth with your eyes to "get" the whole post. So much easier to just put the images between the up-/downvote buttons and the text post....
feature wishlist
This site is getting better everyday, big shout out to @ernest , you're doing a fantastic job :)...
It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice (www.theverge.com)
The UI overhaul is now stable.