Hi Folks, Just a quick introduction, my name's Oskar, I'm a UI/UX designer/developer.
Some of you might already know me by the quick... "chat" I had with Colin over twitter, yesterday :-) You're all probably busy people so I'll get the the point. In February, I tweeted about how the messenger market for mac is lacking, mentioning Adium in the process. Robert Vehse replied saying that if I have a suggestion I should create something, so I teamed up with a great UI designer and friend of mine (Dawid), and started working on a completely rethought frontend for Adium. There were a few private mails between Robert and me just in order to have a more presentable version of our proposal, but the word got out (on Hacker News), so we need to present what we've came up with now. The initial blog post about the Adium Case Study http://nouincolor.com/blog/adium-reborn/ (click on the screen for a full presentation - click to change the slide). Most of the screens from the presentation are self-explanatory. One thing that might need some introduction is the Active Input, this is basically something like Fantastical has – an intelligent input that figures out the stuff you’re trying to do, like: chat Robert chat Robert and Luke message Robert yesterdays chat with Robert Robert history from yesterday status away add oskar.krawc...@gmail.com to Friends … As I've mentioned before, this UI is not as polished as I'd like it to be. Plus, if you guys would be interested in this proposal, Dawid and myself, we'd spend more time in refining and getting all of the screens ready. I've been using Adium for years (remember this or this), as much as I like it, I'd love if this project could take a bolder move, and adopt a minimalistic UI as we've created - this could potentially open the doors to a completely new user-base. If you folks are not planning on taking Adium in a slightly different direction, no hard feelings, we've tried, and we're happy :-) Best Regards, Oskar
