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> This has improved a lot since a year ago but there still needs to be a massive change in the UI design to make it comparable to the competition. I agree whol
by neilalexander 8y ago
> This has improved a lot since a year ago but there still needs to be a massive change in the UI design to make it comparable to the competition.
I agree whole-heartedly with this. I am not entirely sure who decided on Riot's garish green UI filled with circles and non-standard UI controls and wildly variable padding/spacing and communities bar that takes up space even when not joined to any communities, but it looks a mess.
If you look at Slack, Microsoft Teams etc, they are consistent, they are clean and they look like they have been designed by professionals. Riot doesn't - yet - and I can quite understand that putting people off, given that there aren't many other Matrix clients for the average user.
- Arathorn 8y agoYou're always welcome to change the garish green in settings, and likewise hide the communities bar (although we expect communities to be used more and more in future, just as they are in Slack and Discord etc). Meanwhile, the upcoming redesign pretty much removes the green and the circles anyway :)
- fredsir 8y agoWhere can one sneak a peak of the redesign?
- Arathorn 8y agoWe'll do a blogpost shortly to show where it's at and gather feedback :)
- neilalexander 8y agoCan't wait to see the new redesign. Hopefully it takes some hints from the host platform - it'd be great to have Riot feeling more at home on macOS!
- Arathorn 8y agoWe don't have any plans to make a separate desktop app from Riot beyond the Electron one. Instead we're hoping that someone will write a proper native MacOS matrix client, which will be a much closer fit. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrixclient.html https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrixclient.html is the closest I know of there, but someone needs to pick it up and finish it off :)
- acct1771 8y agoIs this the position for all platforms?
- mtgx 8y agoProbably a "quick and easy" way to fix this would be to just rely on Google's Material Design resources and tools, which I think are generally liked by most people. This may be an alternative: https://getmdl.io/index.html https://getmdl.io/index.html
- rickycook 8y agoplease not another MD app! the amount of wasted space is ridiculous!
- kqr 8y agoI agree with you. But! If screen real estate is a priority to you, you may want to use something compact like weechat-matrix anyway, and let those with spare space have their mostly empty UI. It's really refreshing to finally have an open protocol with free client choice.
- theelous3 8y agoAgreed. The negative space is nice looking, but efficient use of space wins in the long term.