User interface design
ui

User interface design helps us adapt the systems we use to serve a broad set of interests and backgrounds -- especially this very website. In the spirit of Public Lab collaborative work, this page is for sharing and discussing user interface related information. A number of projects are in progress; we work to make sure they are broken into small enough parts so that people can take them on and solve them. Some are listed at the bottom of this page. **** ### Updates [notes:grid:pin:ui] **** ## Workflow We are using this shared [Google Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCZoTfuhamRVrUak8aDgqJAwSgyhRtZg2Pgacl2_4zc/edit?usp=slides_home&ths=true) to iterate on design solutions, as well as [Froala Design Blocks](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/) and their [drag and drop editor](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/webpage-builder) to develop design solutions for these pages. Please [post a proposal or sketch](/post) if you'd like to get involved! **** ## Questions [questions:ui] **** ## Design group We are looking to work with community members and people looking to get involved in UI design on Public Lab -- please join the group below to help out! [people:group:design] **** ## Open issues Here are some (disorganized) open design issues we're trying to work on in GitHub: **** ## Resources ### Bootstrap Our site uses Bootstrap 4 to have a consistent visual style -- it includes ready made buttons, menus, forms, and many other elements. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/ ### Icons On our website, we use Font Awesome icons in version 4.7+ and 5+ -- https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/ [![icons.png](/i/26669)](/i/26669) ...


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warren "OK, sounds good. Thank you! On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:06 AM \<notifications@publiclab.org> wrote: Hi! There's been a response to a discussi..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
kelv "Hello Warren, I needed this so that I know how to implement the cards.. but its ok.. I'll just have it static.. for now... For the latest HTML mock..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Hi, Kelvin - no worries - actually you don't need to be doing any database work yet; we will be integrating your code, or pieces of it, into this p..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
kelv "@warren, which databases do you use? I need to know so that I can generate an algorithm for it. Thanks " | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hello again @warren :) Two quick questions: is it possible to upgrade my account to a moderator so that I can publish a wiki (see above)? any pr..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
kelv "Hey Warren, been working on some stuff for fetching data from your database and placing it on the cards so that we can now sort or rather filter......" | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi @warren, Yes, would love to test out the page as it is now. Would it be possible to upgrade my account to a moderator? Right now I can't publi..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Hi, Kelvin - how are things progressing? Thanks! " | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Hm. I wonder how close we are on a v4 upgrade. It'd add some chaos, but it's essentially "now or later" chaos. https://github.com/publiclab/plots2..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi @joyofsoy and @warren! I've added a carousel (not finished), to give you an idea of how it would look like. Let me know what you think :) As a..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Good question @warren. I think in terms of how it looks, v3 and v4 are similar, but v4 is obviously more powerful. Biggest changes are flexbox and ..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Hmm, i see. I think they'll be close enough that we can make it work... I did a test here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/sandbox-3 We will be upgradi..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi again @warren, I've just realized that Froala uses bootstrap 4.0 and not bootstrap 3. I assume I should be using bootstrap 3 as we discussed in..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi @joyofsoy, thank you very much for your feedback :) For the About Us and Donate, you are right, that will come on top in the navigation bar. ..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
joyofsoy "@warren I'm not sure if people would understand what the numbers mean. Is it something we could display in a popup if you hover over? " | Read more » over 5 years ago
joyofsoy "Awesome work @edie_blues! You're doing a great job! Just a few ideas—not sure that they'll all be good ideas: -Under "Find a cause," I love how t..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "And just to break out Joe's observation that: I clicked on the "turkey-creek" tag and expected to be shown a search of notes with that tag. Instead..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Just a follow-up on this for when we take it on -- the full set of results (the typeahead dropdown results only show a subset) for Water Quality Te..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
joyofsoy "I was recently looking for a specific research note and knew the exact title: Water Quality Testing At Turkey Creek. I was unable to reach the page..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "@kelv looking good! The cards look really nice and nice colours on the sidebar. For the header section, I think the text in black is quite hard t..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi @warren, good point and I agree. Thinking about it, I think it's likely that the visitors to the page will be interested in either a specific c..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
kelv "@warren , in distinguishing between content thats most important vs. whats most recent means we filter as follows: top overall, most recent, new th..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
kelv "Noted! It will be up in the next version. " | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Is there anything you could think of along the lines of "join a project near you" where we might direct people to look at https://publiclab.org/peo..." | Read more » over 5 years ago