So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....
Graphics/UI and #ux are one side of the project, UX that is combined with functionality and design is a slightly different story. Looking at the project from the beginning I was wondering about the sense of mixing upvotes and likes. Of course, I know that this from the functionality of federated applications, but also in them...
@minnieo If the functionality still works, what is the purpose of this type of activity? Improve mood? There is, for example, another, simpler solution to this type of problem. It is enough, for example, not to look at the reputation points.
The first approach to "warehouses", channels, rooms. Personally, I don't like the solutions seen on #reddit, but people seem to like them. And yet, the user interface is for people, not for themselves. At least to a large extent.
While reddit's layout isn't fully polished (many subreddit-related modules and pages still use the old layout), I decided to use a drop-down menu that I don't like and redesign it a bit.
The subpage of followed channels, users and tags is still missing, but the general idea is already visible. GIF is animated.
I also updated the preview: https://bit.ly/3NRFQrH
Slowly but forward. Main pages with no content, but they are there. Blog without pagination, but it works. Currently, the font jumping on swap annoys me the most.
And a kbin icon in #3d to complete the set. The mesh is far from perfect and the model itself is ridiculously simple, so there's no point in sharing the .blend file. #blender#kbin
The first version of the user account settings layout. View with icons from the Tabler family instead of Font Awesome. Due to availability, license, number of icons and their variants, all existing icons will be replaced with Tabler icons.
By the way, I would like to add that what I "draw" here does not have a 1:1 reference to the work of the author of the site, because these are only my suggestions. It doesn't have to affect #kbin at all. It also doesn't mean that I'm right and everything is logical :) I just decided to help in the development of the project, but slightly from the side. Unfortunately, open source projects tend to live as long as the developer (usually one person) is motivated. And motivations are easy to burn out, especially in this type of projects.
The fight, I suppose, mainly with CSS has begun. Such a simple design probably won't even require extending Astro's functionality. The blog and subpages are already working, and there is nothing else there. Well, except for the contact form. https://bit.ly/3OGpVN8
After a few hours spent with #astro, I can say that it is more pleasant to receive than #gatsby or #nuxt. Developer mode starts faster, hot reloading is no problem, build is also faster.
The biggest pain I caused myself, because I chose the standard approach to CSS for this framework. Lack of SASS or other preprocessor hurts a bit. However, I will not give up and will not install any.
Small changes. And by the way, checking if uploading video to kbin in any form is already working. Only now I noticed that font-display works differently on firefox compared to webkit
#fediverse logo in #3D for later use. Yes, I know that the colors do not correspond to the original, but the pattern itself is also an unofficial proposal.
Maybe after years and a few small attempts I will check if I can handle WebGL.
Font Awesome vs Feather Icons. CC BY 4.0 vs. MIT. Pack of 2020 icons vs 287. Despite the advantage expressed in numbers, I do not have feelings for Font Awesome. What's better? Or maybe looking at things like icons is just a designer's whim? #kbin#ui
On the occasion of buying a license for Figma and putting Adobe Xd aside, I thought about creating a kbin system design ((unofficial, for testing figma and plugins).
But the post is not about that. I've been living for a while now and I still don't understand why designers stick to a full color palette. From 100 to 900 for each variant. Practice shows that no development team is able to implement it the way the ui designer dreamed. And this is regardless of the size of the company and the money spent on it. Not to mention pallet modifications.
I can't decide whether it's the designers' lack of knowledge that in ordinary SASS you can generate a practically full palette from one base color, or maybe the attitude that everything must be in line with their vision to the letter.
After all, the average user will not even notice the difference. Anyway, monitors have different settings, brightness, contrast, technology and screen quality and the effect will still differ from the designer's vision.
@knoland I know chakra, in fact it's the same as what I'm writing about, only prepared and ready to work.
I'm not talking about the development side, but the masses of designers who spend days/months creating palettes, tints, shades. When in practice it doesn't really make sense. Whether the colors are generated in CSS, JavaScript or is a function built into a given framework is not so important. The point is not to do it manually because the marginal tonal differences in manual selection and generated shades will not be noticed by most users anyway.
Man lives not only in the online world, so he is preparing a slight correction for the real world as well. There is less and less water, so every drop counts, it's a shame to drain it just like that into the sewage system. However, you need a rainwater catcher to collect it. Mine will be 100% effective. At least that's the plan. How it really is will turn out after printing the prototype.
Unfortunately, the information funnel is a matter that affects all media, the Internet, press, television, etc. Even if the operator does not block anything, a person is not able to assimilate all information. And what if we add information noise and disinformation to this.
In the case of a narrow topic such as #fediverse, there is also the issue of its low popularity. There are simply no users on the Polish #kbin instance who could at least point out the mistakes made. And since man is constantly learning, or rather should be learning, I decided to move to international waters.
In the Polish instance I was spamming as grumpydev @grumpyDev
OC I designed and rendered a couple of icons for the magazines I started, and I’d like to share some behind the scenes images with y'all. I’m also open to doing a few more of these in future.
So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....
Upvote vs like
Graphics/UI and #ux are one side of the project, UX that is combined with functionality and design is a slightly different story. Looking at the project from the beginning I was wondering about the sense of mixing upvotes and likes. Of course, I know that this from the functionality of federated applications, but also in them...
Kbin Remove Reputation: A script that hides user's reputation. (greasyfork.org)
I decided to make a script that would hide everyone's reputation so you can navigate Kbin unbiased....
kbin Landing Page
Content a little more than usual so a post on microblog will be suitable for its presentation on average....
Will the mini jeep make it to Moab? Ep5: Swing Arm City, the Moon, Lake Powell. (www.youtube.com)
The episode seems a bit calm, but the ending does not disappoint. Stupid as it should be.