Hey Pawel, first of all, in my humble opinion, I believe that it is better asking for things that "work or don't work". I strongly believe that asking and using like or dislike in the same sentence tend to follow with not very good feedback. I'm one of those designers against the word "like", sorry!
That being said, @jess
hit the spot. Nevertheless, I don't see it as a major problem. The main question that comes to mind is why so many different kinds of buttons and are they all necessary?
Explaining with words is going to be difficult, so I made this pretty fast, bare with me, I did it really quickly! but you can have an idea about it.
Maybe using collapsed components, with a little bigger box and bigger typography can help unclutter the UI and help navigation. It's the first idea that came to mind. (Also aligned my profile card with the first post, that way the empty space left and right helps that center nav with the feed and days of weeks, etc);
Hope it helps, and again, sorry for the quick dirty mock ;)
(Edit: Uploaded a less shameful mock, but forgot to include the sponsors on it, but I swear they were there! 😅).
(EDIT 2: As others pointed out, the eclectic "style" of DEV it's part of its brand, and I really love it! I'm sure you guys will do a great job with the new redesign :D)
I believe that it is better asking for things that "work or don't work". I strongly believe that asking and using like or dislike in the same sentence tend to follow with not very good feedback.
Yea, I tend to agree. Although feedback so far has been great soooo 🤷♂️
Your mockup is perfectly fine, thank you for spending time on it - visualizing ideas always helps.
Maybe using collapsed components, with a little bigger box and bigger typography can help unclutter the UI and help navigation.
The left sidebar now reminds me a bit desktop twitter - which I think is good. I like decluttering it and collapsing "my tags".
I have similar feeling about right sidebar but we also have to keep in mind that we want people to discover new content (not only for of sake of discoverability but simply engagement == money). So we definitely don't want to hide/collapse all sidebar content by default, but I think we have to do some juggling here anyway.
Hey Pawel, first of all, in my humble opinion, I believe that it is better asking for things that "work or don't work". I strongly believe that asking and using
likeordislikein the same sentence tend to follow with not very good feedback. I'm one of those designers against the word "like", sorry!That being said, @jess hit the spot. Nevertheless, I don't see it as a major problem. The main question that comes to mind is why so many different kinds of buttons and are they all necessary?
Explaining with words is going to be difficult, so I made this pretty fast, bare with me, I did it really quickly! but you can have an idea about it.
Maybe using collapsed components, with a little bigger box and bigger typography can help unclutter the UI and help navigation. It's the first idea that came to mind. (Also aligned my profile card with the first post, that way the empty space left and right helps that center nav with the feed and days of weeks, etc);
Hope it helps, and again, sorry for the quick dirty mock ;)
(Edit: Uploaded a less shameful mock, but forgot to include the sponsors on it, but I swear they were there! 😅).
(EDIT 2: As others pointed out, the eclectic "style" of DEV it's part of its brand, and I really love it! I'm sure you guys will do a great job with the new redesign :D)
Yea, I tend to agree. Although feedback so far has been great soooo 🤷♂️
Your mockup is perfectly fine, thank you for spending time on it - visualizing ideas always helps.
The left sidebar now reminds me a bit desktop twitter - which I think is good. I like decluttering it and collapsing "my tags".
I have similar feeling about right sidebar but we also have to keep in mind that we want people to discover new content (not only for of sake of discoverability but simply engagement == money). So we definitely don't want to hide/collapse all sidebar content by default, but I think we have to do some juggling here anyway.
Totally agree Pawel, happy to be wrong!!