I designed a Material You app for Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by a_m@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi everybody, I'm a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it's a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers.

Obviously, this is just a concept, so if any developer interest, I'm very willing to collaborate with 🫡 . Vice versa, if anyone stucks with designing his/her own Lemmy client, just reach out to me and I will give you a hand.

Here is a quick demo of some basic features: https://vimeo.com/843481714?share=copy

And here is the figma file if you wanna take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/ZBR30l0ZcKuyKMPjeDmvdF/Lemmy-Android-app?type=design&node-id=53526-31054&mode=dev

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[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I like the look. One thing I would like to see is integration of the community search tool to make discoverability easier. Something that shows what server each community is on but also will allow you to search across servers in case you don't know where things are, and a way to view the list of all communities if you want.

[-] Andonome@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.

[-] a_m@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using connect for lemmy. It works fine, but I still have to use the web version to jumping between servers, which is why I come up with this idea.

[-] incognito_15@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Hmm, connect let's me switch between accounts on different instances just fine.

[-] a_m@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, I'm just too lazy to create account for every servers I find interesting, especially when the different between them are minor

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

hey this looks really similar to a proposal that was made on github for jerboa. Jerboa is also really focused on material UI so maybe it would be best to combine efforts and help each other out.