One of my biggest gripe with Linux and OSS in general is their UI design (or lack thereof). As a designer the UIs bothers me to no end when I use Linux. So I set out to do what I do best, I fix them. Granted of course I’m only capable of creating frontend mockups, and not make them into full-fledged shell skin.
You may remember a few years ago, I worked on a UI concept for my favorite opensource raster editor the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Today I set out to revamp the UI of yet another major piece of opensource software, one that in my opinion, has even worse UI than the GIMP (who knew that’s even possible).
You can see below my work in progress, I’ve only put in an hour or two into it, on and off, so it’s around 20% complete at best. Can you guess which program I’m trying to facelift here, base on the tool layout? This one should be easy.
Update Sep 07: made some progress today, this one should make it clearer what I’m working on ;)
Update Sep 09: some small update, I’m still torn between the options for the volume controller. The first one looks better but IMO a simple volume controller should not be too eye-catching. What do you think?
Update Sep 12: This is it, I'm gonna stop working on this now. Next up, Openshot.