There was a large conversation about a whole redesign that was started by George Lambrou. Have you looked at that at all?
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Daniel Alexander Guzman <ani...@uga.edu>wrote: > Overall, I like the direction you've taken with the UI. I'm not a *huge* fan > of Messages, which it seems you've gone to a certain extent emulating, but > the simplicity definitely does appeal to me. I especially like the removal > of a lot of the icon clutter, one of my few annoyances with Adium. However, > the menubar contacts are a bit iffy for me; I very, very rarely use the > menubar for anything more than display. The only app I use regularly > resident in it, Mint Quickview, is hardly a favorite of mine for that exact > reason. Perhaps as an option, for those who choose to use it, but I > definitely prefer a regular, dedicated window. > > Moreover, the sidebar with current conversations is nice, but I think it > could be curious to go the route of Google Talk: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5w4yczdz9h21v0/2013-05-03-04.30.48.png > > Rather than a separate list of conversations, it could integrate the > buddy list and conversations, by moving up and differentiating contacts who > are currently engaged in conversations with you. This works well and saves > space. > > The active input is especially curious, and I wonder how useful it'll > be. I often use a lot of keyboard-driven interfaces (I use Spotlight to > launch just about everything), but I've never really thought about it for > my instant messenger. I figure if it's done well, though, I'd use the hell > out of it. > > Overall, I really do like the more simple and clean direction you took. > The entire chat 'bubble' style isn't exactly my favorite, so I figure it'd > be nice (and likely not incredibly hard) to retain the traditional > configurability of the chat view. Currently, I've got it with something > clean and simple like so: > > http://cl.ly/image/1o1u3q2l0c41 > > Nothing incredibly fancy, but just a preference. I've never been a fan > of bubbles. > > Overall, though, I love the direction. If this ever does come together > into something, I'd love to give it a shot. > > On May 2, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Oskar Krawczyk <oskar.krawc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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<http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=3655> > or this <http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=6218>), 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 > > > -- Chris Forsythe @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick>
