I make things, and people seem to like them.
Appreciate it! I think a stretch-goal for the future could be a "muted colors" toggle, to tone things down a little while keeping the rest of the changes
F O R E V E R
First release of my Hive Theme for Beehaw!
Not sure if it's more relavant to Creative or Technology, so cross-posting here from: https://beehaw.org/post/743965
Exactly a week later, hello again!
I was so flattered by people's reaction to my last post - thank you for making me feel so welcomed by this community! I'm still toying with icon redesigns, but I noticed that people were equally (if not more) interested in the theme ideas I posted - so I've spent the last week trying to make them a reality! I call them Hive Light and Hive Dark, and I think they're ready to share with you all.
I was able to incorporate lots of tweaks to Beehaw's UI, including:
- Customisable levels of minimalisation
- Consistent padding and spacing site-wide, increasing legibility and cleanliness without sacrificing too much information density
- Repositioned various UI/UX elements to make Beehaw easier and more intuitive to navigate
- Con
It's one thing to test a new idea or a UX tweak or similar on a small portion of users - but just turning off a key way to access your service is so just so weird to me. How many of Reddit's decisions at this point are some version of, "hey, how angry do they get? What can we get away with?"