UX

[marnanel]

So, let's talk about UX. I'm not any kind of expert on this stuff, so this is entirely handwavey, and I'd especially welcome suggestions.

What do people think about hamburger buttons? It would make design easier, but people say it's more confusing for users. Maybe it'd be good at least for a first draft?

It seems to me that the most important screens we have to be able to display are timeline (which is both "lastn" and "read") and compose (which is "new post" and "edit post"). We'll need several others (change circle, choose reading group, view post without editing it, view comments, settings...) but those two seem to be the ones we really have to have.

I have an idea that the Tumblr app has some good ideas we might be able to steal. Like this, perhaps:


(Thanks to the two users who agreed to have their posts in that image)

Thoughts?

Comments

[swaldman]

My main thought is "if you're building an Android app, follow the current (Marshmallow) Android design guide". That way things work as people expect, plus, by now it's generally quite good advice anyway, I think.

But I guess youvre wanting to take a step back now, and not think it terms of visual design but simply the flow of using the app. I don’t really feel there's much to comment on at the moment - perhaps if you have ideas a flowchart and /or sketches might help? - but one thought re compose: I believe that there's an intention for DW to support draft and scheduled posts, so that should be probably be allowed for (even if not used) from the start,even if not exposed in the UI. Possibly the infrastructure for offline sync relates to that nicely, possibly not...

[marnanel]

Design guide: very good point, and I should have started there.

I didn't know about the plans for draft/scheduled posts-- thank you!