Hi everybody, I’m a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it’s a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers.

Obviously, this is just a concept, so if any developer interest, I’m very willing to collaborate with 🫡 . Vice versa, if anyone stucks with designing his/her own Lemmy client, just reach out to me and I will give you a hand.

Here is a quick demo of some basic features: https://vimeo.com/843481714?share=copy

And here is the figma file if you wanna take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/ZBR30l0ZcKuyKMPjeDmvdF/Lemmy-Android-app?type=design&node-id=53526-31054&mode=dev

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    1 year ago

    The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they’re both janky as all heck.

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        1 year ago

        Liftoff is pretty great. Devs keep making improvement every day.

        I am still waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but Liftoff might convert me.

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          1 year ago

          I think it looks fine on android, but it probably doesn’t integrate with iOS nicely. I also think light themes are bad by default so I can’t judge your photo accurately lol.

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            1 year ago

            Here is iOS dark / compact

            IMHO, the shadows, padding around cards, corner radiuses, drop down stylings, etc. are all pretty rough. It doesn’t feel as refined as Material You or iOS’s design system.

            After driving in Memmy, Mlem, and Wefwef (now Voyager), Liftoff feels kind of janky to me.

            Just my 2¢

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              1 year ago

              If you go into settings and turn off card shadows and rounded corners it gets a bit better IMO

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                1 year ago

                Oh god, that’s way better. That stuff should be off by default. That said, I still feel like they need a UI person to contribute, and OP should hit them up.

                As someone who does UI for a living, it feels rough to me. I wish I had the time to help out, but I’ve already got a couple other nasty side projects on my plate.

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              1 year ago

              Just popping in to mention the UI got a pretty big update recently. You might want to take another look, I think its a lot better now.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t use compact so I’ve not seen those before, but I’m sure that’s not what anyone intended!

            I’d be interested to see what’s in the video. I think we’re at a good point to spend some time understanding what works on both main target platforms and making the changes to get us there.

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        1 year ago

        Liftoff is better but compared to the greats that existed in the reddit ecosystem these are very crude. The platform just needs time for devs to catch up to the 10+ years they had invested in Reddit development. The dev behind sync for Reddit has been hard at work on an client for Lemmy with as much feature parity as possible.

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        1 year ago

        Using thunder now. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best experience for me that I’ve found so far.

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      1 year ago

      I’m currently using connect for lemmy. It works fine, but I still have to use the web version to jumping between servers, which is why I come up with this idea.

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          1 year ago

          yeah, I’m just too lazy to create account for every servers I find interesting, especially when the different between them are minor

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            1 year ago

            Why would you create an account on every server? You can access any community on any server that your server is federated with.

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      1 year ago

      I’m really enjoying wefwef. It’s smooth and works well. No weirdness or issues on my end.