Mar 16
By Susan Kare
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By Susan Kare
[Second Sun of Tatooine]
Luke being the second son of the Skywalker family to come out of Tatooine. Here is the symbol of Luke's life story, from the humble hut of Tatooine to the X-Fighter, to the one who brought balance to the force, becoming the "Second Sun/ Savior."
(slight shadow of sand hut and antenna or something other )
(post 901)
Having loud thoughts again, but you know what would be an absolutely baller idea for tumblr's layout? Everything being a full widget system, especially on the dashboard. I'm just using this as an example, but the old UI for deviantart, dated as it is now by website standards visually, worked off a widget like system where you had so much control over how your profile page was displayed. Certain elements/boxes could be dragged and placed on your page and then adjusted via preset options or through a bit of light coding shenanigans. Imagine that, but with the tumblr dashboard. Instead of being stuck in just one format, you could drag your navigation bar to the left or right or if you don't like that you could pull it up top instead. Or you could have a widget on the side bar like xkit does for tag tracking, or trending tags or just not have any of that on the dashboard. Or how about a widget purely to keep track of recent mutuals that will take you directly to a full list in one click or a widget listing your current que ect ect. All of these being movable pieces yeah? The main point being the ability for a user to rearrange their dashboard to their liking for the best personal navigation with the least amount of clicks. I think the idea of drag and dropping UI elements is taken for granted on most current social media sites even though it's extremely intuitive once you understand it's a feature that exists and how clunky things feel when you don't have it or it's taken away. There's personal website builders that already use widgets pretty frequently, so why not extend that to bigger websites that rely on plenty of consistent user navigation daily? Like imagine updates that could be about adding in highly requested new widgets or adjusting functionality of current widgets to perform better based on user feedback. I am not a coder so I don't know how difficult it would be to implement a robust widget system for a large scale social media website, but it's been on my mind for years now with trying out all kinds of beta art sites before. I really think something like that would be worth the investment for a place like tumblr and potentially cut down on a lot of discontent over layout changes.
Read outlier bad ratings on cheap shit on amazon to scare an User Experience developer
So these are dirt cheap, and do look small and shitty but hey, it's a bit of hued plastic film in a cardboard frame, it really isn't complicated scientifically and if you want to make them ergonomic for your huge face (I probably will) all you need is some cardboard, scissors and tape. Or better yet just tape them to some real shades frame.
Meanwhile in the 1 star reviews;
"I'm upset I can't see too much through the glasses made for not seeing things through too much"
You're supposed to fucking clip them and tape them. It's in the GODDAMN LISTING MULTIPLE TIMES
And for the true finale;
AH, THEY SWITCHED THE FUCKING SUN OUT, BETWEEN 2016 AND 2024???
Remember, no matter how simple you make something and how much effort you put into explaining it, some people won't understand you. Create things you want to see, and don't feel bad if someone doesn't get it. There's always someone who won't get it.
UPDATE 7/2/23
We've just released the following features and updates:
Proposals to change or add group roles and permissions
Re-designed dark mode theme for both mobile and desktop
Group settings with the ability to set groups to public
For anyone interested in contributing or obtaining an invite link to the website, you can find us on both GitHub and Discord.
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Working on the final project for class which is re designing my website. The goal is to have this up by September so I’m working on hi fidelity prototypes
Wish me luck!
it's amazing how small we can make things these days