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/ [](/i/26669) ...
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| warren | "a general way in which people "follow" questions Just chipping in on this, subscribing to the tag "question:balloon-mapping" subscribes you to all..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Hi there. Love the mockup. I had a few thoughts: Can there be a general way in which people "follow" questions. Some people really like answering..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Thanks for all your responses! They are all exciting! Especially, even publishing as a draft and soliciting input/review as discussed in the comme..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | " reuse of popular tags for sure -- hoping to have a "recent" or "popular" tags, and maybe eventually a "suggested" tags, though that's technically..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Thoughts on tags: some sites (Stack Exchange, ArcGis, etc.,) require a minimum number of tags, and also encourage reuse of popular tags. This ensur..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@warren, I think that's great. Would there be a place to explain (maybe on the "How to write a research note" wiki) that you can make a unique seri..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Super duper, thanks Gretchen! Great ideas. I'll respond to the Rich Editor one for now, since design for that has begun: Can we power-tag researc..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@warren, this is great. Thanks! I'm also interested in: (1) both in-line and post-text commenting (like how we comment on research notes). (2) bein..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Thanks all for your input! Good idea on movement from note => wiki -- and on authorship metadata. We should also do more generally to make wiki..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I'm interested in the interconnection between research notes and wikis. Currently only an author or admin can move markdown from a note to a wiki ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| viechdokter | "Hi Warren, this is great news. As a newby with the PLab spectrometry I find it still a bit difficult to navigate on the spectrometry pages. (Where..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "@ajawitz I'm not sure if you have seen the (lengthy) discussion on Markdown in various places, but I can link to at least one part of the longer co..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | " User-documentation issues have been THE most challenging problem for just about every grassroots organization I've ever worked with. For project..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| pswigert | "When the team I worked with at the Berkeley School of Information was working on our thesis project we looked a lot at how to build intrfacws that ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| klie | "This was brought up several times during the Barnraising also. There were so many awesome people there with great ideas and lots to say, yet I hav..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| liz | "I am also interested in a plain text question posting option. Would be good to be able to include pictures though, with an upload method that peopl..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| DavidMack | "Kudos all around for a great site! I love the Notes and feel guilty I'm in the 80th percentile of lurkers--will have to post something. Wiki page..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "It's absolutely a priority -- so much so, that throughout this note, I've treated it as a given that we're implementing it. Am I misreading that? ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I don't misunderstand this note, Jeff. It has two sections: a diagnosis of the problem of research note posting, and a proposed remedy-- working on..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "For plain text only, we might want to look into something like what TwitLonger does. http://www.twitlonger.com/ Twitter begins as just text with 1..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hey Mathew - maybe you misunderstand -- I'm not speaking against a WYSIWYG editor - we've clearly agreed on Github that it's a priority, and my und..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "I know I'm going to come off cold and inhuman, but we should not ignore mathematics and known trends. Most natural works, and human works, exist i..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Since our inception, looking at and using Markdown has scared off posters-- and I know this because people have been telling me this for four years..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Thanks Jeff. As always, thoughtful with an eye for how to broaden participation and make more inclusive. For me, being busy and spread thin is an i..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |