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I absolutely love SourceHut UI. I don’t have a word for it but it approaches the epitome of functional design. I’ve always been a critic of Stripe design - alt

I absolutely love SourceHut UI. I don’t have a word for it but it approaches the epitome of functional design. I’ve always been a critic of Stripe design - although it’s silky smooth and nice, those animations and what not are not as important as densely packed, well organized and information rich UI. People rave about Stripe’s design as if it’s something everyone needs to follow - I couldn’t disagree more. Stripe’s design is overrated and overblown on HN. Drew has nailed this aspect and I think he wrote about it in his blog. Today’s design fads are: Gradients (Apple), Magenta colors (Firefox, basically any SaaS) and Brutalist design (Dropbox rebrand), probably a few more that I can’t think of right now. This shit needs to stop guys. I don’t have anything against a designers but when a designer is designing for the sake of making something without drilling down why it needs to be that way - stop right there and reevaluate. This also applies to non-designers that design things as well. Design is about how things work, not animations and slick effects that wow the users.

SwellJoe 7y ago
I find it clean but very confusing. e.g., if I'm looking at the Sourcehut source code here: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/ https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/ I would expect to be "in" the Sourcehut project, and clicking any of the links at the top would take me to builds, todo, lists, etc. related to that project...but it doesn't, and I don't see any way to go to those things related to the project. And, to add further confusion, even though I'm logged in, clicking any of those links invites me to login/register again. Frankly, I have no idea WTF is going on in this UI. It looks fine, but it's not at all easy to use for me.
- Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
  These are two of the major unsolved problems blocking the graduation of alpha to beta. The latter problem falls under single-sign-on, and the former problem falls under the project hub milestone. Rest assured, both are known and going to be taken care of, and part of why it's still considered an alpha. Your patience is appreciated :)
  - rlonstein 7y ago
    Cool. I thought it was something peculiar about my ad/js/cookie blocking. It wasn't significant enough to make me investigate.
jdnenej 7y ago
SourceHuts design can be described as utilitarian. It's there to serve a purpose but it incredibly boring and emotionless. For a source code hosting platform this is fine but utilitarian is not what you want every UI to be.

SwellJoe 7y ago

I find it clean but very confusing. e.g., if I'm looking at the Sourcehut source code here: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/ https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/ I would expect to be "in" the Sourcehut project, and clicking any of the links at the top would take me to builds, todo, lists, etc. related to that project...but it doesn't, and I don't see any way to go to those things related to the project. And, to add further confusion, even though I'm logged in, clicking any of those links invites me to login/register again. Frankly, I have no idea WTF is going on in this UI. It looks fine, but it's not at all easy to use for me.

Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
These are two of the major unsolved problems blocking the graduation of alpha to beta. The latter problem falls under single-sign-on, and the former problem falls under the project hub milestone. Rest assured, both are known and going to be taken care of, and part of why it's still considered an alpha. Your patience is appreciated :)
- rlonstein 7y ago
  Cool. I thought it was something peculiar about my ad/js/cookie blocking. It wasn't significant enough to make me investigate.

jdnenej 7y ago

SourceHuts design can be described as utilitarian. It's there to serve a purpose but it incredibly boring and emotionless. For a source code hosting platform this is fine but utilitarian is not what you want every UI to be.