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 "Sharing some design vocabulary from other sites here - i'm interested in: how each "item" here is shown in a panel which clearly prompts Follow/J..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
liz " Thanks Eva! As a "wiki gardener," i have been adding overarching category types of tags such as "water-quality" or "air-quality" "sensors". Perhap..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
sylvan " Hi Eva, I love what you are doing and so excited about how it will improve the PL site. I particularly appreciate you are working to streamline ..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
edie_blues "@warren @liz (and all! :), I've added an alternative top bar (instead of the text input), maybe this would indeed be simpler :) The design is her..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
edie_blues "@liz you are right, "Publish" doesn't sound right, I changed it to "Add New" (so there's still a definite call to action). I believe everything wi..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
roberts_ecofarm " @edie_blues, looks like you have ticked most of the boxes. Thanks for letting me be part of the conversation. Looking forward to the roll-out. " | Read more » about 5 years ago
aleidaperez "I'm currently out of the office and will return on  Tuesday January 2, 2019.  Thank you.  -Aleida " | Read more » about 5 years ago
warren "Thanks for the input! We are hoping to make everything easier to find as part of this series of UI projects, and truly value your observations. So ..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
liz " Hi Edie, thanks for this comprehensive response! I have just a couple minor observations. For the #4 point, the button says "Publish" which does..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
edie_blues " Hi @warren, @roberts_ecofarm and @liz thank you for your comments! I'll answer all of you here, but the numbers are following Jeff's post. I'll ..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
liz "Welcome back Edie and Happy New Year! and, wow, thank you for all this work! It's so great to see this dashboard mockup come to life! I just studie..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
roberts_ecofarm " @edie_blues - Great work so far. I like @warren's idea about the interact zone being a set of buttons or something. It would be great if the ask..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
warren "Like Ask a Question Share your work Post an event or something? " | Read more » about 5 years ago
warren "Perhaps the "interaction" prompt zone button should be more like a set of buttons to lead to the posting forms, rather than an input, since it coul..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
warren "Also, what do you think about the ideas from my earlier comment: how such a menu of topics might remain, but be useful as an organizing system fo..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
warren " Hi @edie_blues - thanks, just pasting in a snapshot of the latest dashboard design here. Also, perhaps a separate post for the questions page will..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hi @warren, @liz, @roberts_ecofarm, @read_holman, @gauravano, @oorjit_chowdhary, and everyone else, and Happy New Year! :) I've started working o..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
edie_blues "Hello @warren, @liz, @roberts_ecofarm, @read_holman, @gauravano, @oorjit_chowdhary (and everyone else), thank you very much for your feedback, it'..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
bansal_sidharth2996 " Hi @edie_blues I really loved your designs. They are simply awesome. Just wanna ask you about the header which we currently have vs the left side..." | Read more » about 5 years ago
roberts_ecofarm "@edie_blues I like the design you posted on github more than the current design. Dividing the page into three columns utilizes the space better. ..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
oorjit_chowdhary " Hi all, I had seen this issue on GitHub but unfortunately missed this discussion note.. Here's what I had posted on github as a suggestion I sa..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "I wonder if we could take the map of "near me" and move it to a top/central location, potentially like where the blog feature is currently? I gues..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Thanks, Eva! I've been thinking about the dashboard and looking at the current design; one thing I notice is that it's generally divided into 4 qua..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
gauravano " Hi Eva, Google Code-In students have also suggested some ideas for dashboard, you might be interested in looking. Here's the issue - https://githu..." | Read more » over 5 years ago