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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gretchengehrke "I think we should distinguish between tags and topics. I think, while we still don't use the word "topic" widely on the site, we have the opportuni..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
gretchengehrke "@cfastie, I have those same questions too re: many tags, one wiki; one tag, many wikis. I'm hoping we can start creating primary wikis that are top..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "quick question -- are "primary tags" the most interconnected tags, or would there be a manual step of choosing them? Glad to see there is a way to..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "Only two things seem strange @cfastie ? ;) -- then perhaps we're doing better than expected! :D " | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "I left a long response to this with a possible initial solution: Cool, thanks Liz! To try for one stab at a narrower feature towards this goal, w..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Also, this issue which will help us count all contributors on a topic will help generate a broader picture of topic-specific community: https://gi..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Via @liz note here: Let's go back to basics on this issue :) What is the goal of visualizing tags? For me, visualizing tags is a way to visually..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "Maybe more useful than a long list of popular/recent/related notes in the sidebar is the one or two real research notes (not newsletters, events, o..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "The dashboard feed is a mix of research notes, comments, questions, and events. The display can be limited to a subset of these using a dropdown me..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Thanks for pointing that out, Chris - and I agree on point 2, that's one reason @liz started this issue. From your 3) i see a potential suggestion..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "You might want to point out that you are referring to the left sidebar which shows up on a subset of publiclab pages. I don't think I have ever f..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "@tommystyles this may be related to our discussion last week! @liz also take a peek over here, thanks! :-) " | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "Another thing that makes tag pages sort of mysterious is that you can get to one by searching for "https://publiclab.org/tag/balloon-mapping", but ..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "Hi Tommy, I just learned last month that when you search for a tag that has been used at publiclab.org you can get two different results. If the t..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "@stevie @gretchengehrke @liz -- this last diagram is a stab at explaining the site to newcomers; it's just a first step but thought you might have ..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "In light of all the work we've done to build out Q&A and activities on so many different topic and methods pages, I tried for a simplified diag..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Like this one on the actual individual question page: " | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "I just wanted to share this follow-up work that Siyuan made on Mural: https://app.mural.ly/t/autodesk18/m/autodesk18/1493058561784/830bcd3736273a1..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "Hi @siyuan , i just posted this github issue about what seems to be redundant clutter on the /questions page: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/i..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "hi @siyuan , I'm excited to help you get whatever other information you need to ideate and sketch some ideas for features/layouts. " | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Just linking in our #soc Summer of Code team who may be interested to read over these analyses as they develop various new interfaces! @ryzokuken,..." | Read more » almost 7 years ago
liz "Thank you for this, it's really relevant, thanks for the targeted look! " | Read more » almost 7 years ago
warren "Just wanted to say, I love this analysis and have shared it already with @stevie and @liz and @becki -- thanks so much for posting it here! We're v..." | Read more » almost 7 years ago
liz "Yes! sounds great! I think we are trying to have that kind of language, could you try adding that to the top paragraph of https://publiclab.org/wik..." | Read more » over 7 years ago