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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| bsugar | "Okay, so translating the co-occurrences to Ruby will require a bit more code then I thought it would be (see second paragraph). Unfortunately, I c..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi Benjamin!!! Sorry, i wasn't referring to the giant tag graph, but to the list of tags manually selected and featured at https://publiclab.org/ta..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| bsugar | " I'm not entirely sure what you mean by manually sorting them, but I think the problem there would be that some tags belong to both categories. Th..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "I actually mean just manually sorting them. Will chat at u in a sec. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:47 PM \<notifications@publiclab.org> wrote: ..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| liz | " Yes i think it is good inspiration! How can i parent a bunch of tags to make this happen? " | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "@liz, i wonder if that's a good inspiration for a manual grouping of the many "featured" tags currently on the top of the /tags page under fewer to..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| liz | " Here is an idea for tag families co-created by @bsugar and @cfastie: " | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| aleidaperez | "I'm currently out of the office and will return on Tuesday January 2, 2019. Thank you. -Aleida " | Read more » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Like Ask a Question Share your work Post an event or something? " | Read more » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 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 » | almost 6 years ago |