User interface design helps us adapt the systems we use to serve a broad set of interests and backgrounds -- especially this very website. In the spirit of Public Lab collaborative work, this page is for sharing and discussing user interface related information. A number of projects are in progress; we work to make sure they are broken into small enough parts so that people can take them on and solve them. Some are listed at the bottom of this page. **** ### Updates [notes:grid:pin:ui] **** ## Workflow We are using this shared [Google Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCZoTfuhamRVrUak8aDgqJAwSgyhRtZg2Pgacl2_4zc/edit?usp=slides_home&ths=true) to iterate on design solutions, as well as [Froala Design Blocks](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/) and their [drag and drop editor](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/webpage-builder) to develop design solutions for these pages. Please [post a proposal or sketch](/post) if you'd like to get involved! **** ## Questions [questions:ui] **** ## Design group We are looking to work with community members and people looking to get involved in UI design on Public Lab -- please join the group below to help out! [people:group:design] **** ## Open issues Here are some (disorganized) open design issues we're trying to work on in GitHub: **** ## Resources ### Bootstrap Our site uses Bootstrap 4 to have a consistent visual style -- it includes ready made buttons, menus, forms, and many other elements. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/ ### Icons On our website, we use Font Awesome icons in version 4.7+ and 5+ -- https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/ [](/i/26669) ...
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| warren | "Just wanted to say, I love this analysis and have shared it already with @stevie and @liz and @becki -- thanks so much for posting it here! We're v..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "Yes! sounds great! I think we are trying to have that kind of language, could you try adding that to the top paragraph of https://publiclab.org/wik..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "What about having a title and subtitle for some of these pages? To provide context and other recognizable titles. E.g.: something like but not nec..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Interesting. I was envisioning the Header with collapsable paragraphs below, but both could be cool. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "I wonder if we could think about it more developed out as a feature, like perhaps it'd show up like an inset text box: http://getbootstrap.com/comp..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@warren, I think it could be useful -- it could be more visually appealing than just having a Table of Contents at the top and then straight text f..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yep! It's a little convoluted to write the HTML, though; if you think it'd be a common feature, we could make an inline powertag for it, maybe? " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@warren, This is neat! Would this work for wikis too? " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ananyo2012 | "@liz Thanks for your sincere thoughts on the ideas. It's great to have your views. Yeah I do support the tradition of Publiclab. Barnstar system is..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| liz | "Great note and comment thread! Thank you @Ananyo2012 for putting this together and also for very detailed email communications. It's really great w..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "If we want users to mark tags as favorites, we could potentially use profile tagging to achieve this, but I guess if we already have a way to follo..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "What about for the upvote HTML, reusing the already familiar Like template, and modifying it so it can be used for upvoting too -- Ajaxy, too. Or i..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Thanks for the feedback, love the Upvote :) Know we might not get feedback from @liz for a while because she is traveling, but I'm interested to h..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ananyo2012 | "@stevie With respect to the user reputation/badging system we can use points according to the number of questions/answers and the number of upvotes..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ananyo2012 | "@stevie Ok then we can drop the dislike button and keep a Upvote button similar to this one. Regarding the user approving an answer I think the p..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ananyo2012 | "@warren Instead of topic wise sorted question we can use the idea of Favourite tags similar to that used in stackoverflow. The user can enter a ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ananyo2012 | "@stevie What I wanted to show is on clicking the Add Comment button the comment editor will show up below all comments of that section. For answe..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "a general way in which people "follow" questions Just chipping in on this, subscribing to the tag "question:balloon-mapping" subscribes you to all..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Hi there. Love the mockup. I had a few thoughts: Can there be a general way in which people "follow" questions. Some people really like answering..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Thanks for all your responses! They are all exciting! Especially, even publishing as a draft and soliciting input/review as discussed in the comme..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | " reuse of popular tags for sure -- hoping to have a "recent" or "popular" tags, and maybe eventually a "suggested" tags, though that's technically..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Thoughts on tags: some sites (Stack Exchange, ArcGis, etc.,) require a minimum number of tags, and also encourage reuse of popular tags. This ensur..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@warren, I think that's great. Would there be a place to explain (maybe on the "How to write a research note" wiki) that you can make a unique seri..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Super duper, thanks Gretchen! Great ideas. I'll respond to the Rich Editor one for now, since design for that has begun: Can we power-tag researc..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago |