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Nice project! I love Calibre's functionality, but I too was kind of frustrated by its UI and started designing an interface that kind of looks like a mixture of

by respot 3y ago

Nice project! I love Calibre's functionality, but I too was kind of frustrated by its UI and started designing an interface that kind of looks like a mixture of pre-Apple-Music iTunes and iBooks. I only created one screen so far, but feel free to take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/m8qaYbPSnxiFPDPbuYtz2w/Calibre-redesign?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=design&t=VijuXmU30jgRNOeH-1 https://www.figma.com/file/m8qaYbPSnxiFPDPbuYtz2w/Calibre-re... My main question was, how could Calibre's main functionality be presented in a UI that feels native to macOS? Since this doesn't try to be cross-platform, I might try to build this as a SwiftUI app with your Rust backend if I find the time. Kudos on actually publishing this! It might be hard to maintain something that keeps up with Calibre's development, but it sure seems like a fun hobby project :)

phildenhoff 3y ago
This looks great! I'm no designer, so I always appreciate seeing other folks' ideas on how to design things. To shout out some other inspiration, there have been a few Calibre redesign projects. In particular, Kemie Guaida[1]'s redesign posted to Reddit has been a major design inspiration (and she deserves credit on the repo, which I will address shortly): https://old.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/udzumn/testing_a_new_interface_for_calibre/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/udzumn/testing_a_n... You're able to see the entire overview of the project here: https://www.figma.com/file/g4ntqXWa6C0PRGrG3WjyXM/Calibre-prototype-reddit?type=design&node-id=254-25204&mode=design&viewport=381,48,0.17&t=wJKcNJDtFt2ZjsPI-0 https://www.figma.com/file/g4ntqXWa6C0PRGrG3WjyXM/Calibre-pr... [1]: https://kemielikes.design/ https://kemielikes.design/