Redesign

[denull0]

I've quickly redesigned the Station app. It's far from final and the file is dirty but if you guys are happy let me know. I can see the project becoming bigger as a serious dropbox alternative as longs we we manage to make it user friendly enough.

Feedback is welcome

[lidel]

I'd love to have a chance to glance at it, but it is in proprietary Sketch format.
Could you export it to PDF please, so it can be viewed by non-Mac users?

(I am truly interested in this, as we want to unify UX across "official" apps and use similar design language in browser addon (ipfs/ipfs-companion))

[daviddias]

This is a really cool contribution @dimoFeeld ! Thank you :)

Will you have the time to keep iterating on the design? Would love to see a new design come to life :) Agree that UX is crucial!

Here is my first round of feedback:

• Can you do some mockups for:
• folders being drag and dropped
• settings menu

Also, consider taking inspiration from https://partysha.re/

[denull0]

@lidel I just exported it as a pdf. What do you think? It's at early stage but my concept is to package the whole thing as super duper user friendly app. I will keep expanding on it, maybe even work on some sort of a brand for it.

I think it will be great if we manage to package everything under a single domain where we can let people download their browser plugins and desktop and mobile apps.

[denull0]

@diasdavid Thank you so much for the feedback. It makes total sense. I am working on it as we speak. But keep in mind that my goal is to attract the mainstream users to the platform. So I would need your assistance so I can make sure that the power user features are secondary.

[lidel]

@dimoFeeld thanks, PDF renders directly in github interface 👍

Few thoughts:

• I like minimalist approach, but just like @diasdavid noted, bottom icons should be self-explanatory:
  we should not force user to discover meaning via on-hover tooltip. Perhaps something like https://thenounproject.com could be a good source of meaningful icons?
• Non-macOS use cases such as browser extension will not be able to support support translucent popups. This means if you don't provide backgrop image, the background will be just a solid dark grey/black. Nothing wrong with that, but the "solid one" will have more use cases: it means you need to prepare two mockups for the design: one with translucent background, and one with solid one.

[denull0]

@lidel @diasdavid I've added a solid colour background as an option in the designs. Icons are much better now. And you can also see the peer's IDs on the map.

[daviddias]

Hi @dimoFeeld, @hacdias is continuing and improving on your initial work at #516 . I'm closing this PR but you are welcome to join #516 too :)