No. I just joined the ML yesterday with a very specific idea for the UI in mind.
Best, Oskar On May 3, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Christopher Forsythe <ch...@growl.info> wrote: > 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 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 >> > > > > > -- > Chris Forsythe > @The_Tick
