Show HN: My weekend Project - Almost Flat UI Theme

http://websymphony.net/almost-flat-ui/

by websymphony • 13 years ago

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ummjackson• 13 years ago

Is anyone else sick of fedoras?

Samuel_Michon• 13 years ago

Nope, Fedoras are timeless.

http://meninfedoras.tumblr.com/

rhdoenges• 13 years ago

Sorry, thought you said http://fedorasofokc.tumblr.com/

cmwelsh• 13 years ago

Nice work! I like it.

One small bug: on the iPhone Google Chrome view of the green button group, there is a strange difference in appearance when compared to the rendering in desktop Google Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/KBCepbX.png

websymphony6• 13 years ago

Thank you, yea that does look odd. Will fix it.

jamesjporter• 13 years ago

Wow looks great! One little piece of advice: the "disabled" button doesn't look quite inactive enough to me; if I saw it on a webpage I might try to click on it. Maybe make it a bit lighter/more transparent?

websymphony6• 13 years ago

Thank you! Good suggestion, will do.

yesimahuman• 13 years ago

It wasn't immediately clear, but this is for the Foundation framework. It looks great, nice work!

websymphony6• 13 years ago

Thank you. Added that in the header now.

martinced• 13 years ago

It's nice but the dropdown selection suffers from the common issue that Amazon solved using "fuzzier" mouse tracking. Trying to get to the last dropdown box on this "Almost Flat UI" is hard: as soon as you're one or two pixels off everything disappears.

jokeofweek• 13 years ago

Looks great! Just a small typo: "You can also you <em> to italicize your words."

websymphony6• 13 years ago

Thanks! Fixed it.

drivebyacct2• 13 years ago

Foundation is already as flat as it gets... Is the red supposed to be orange and the green a teal color :S ?

The list bullets/numbers are too far left, out of alignment with the header. I really don't think the colors go together well, I hate to make such a subjective comment but I can't get over it...

Check out the Foundation docs, I don't really get what all is modified here beyond the colors: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/alert-boxes.html I suppose there are a few places that there is an extra contrast color that adds a bit of dimension to the buttom/form elements that could go to match "Flat" better, but otherwise...

tricolon• 13 years ago

Regarding the list bullets and numbers: this style is known as hanging punctuation [1] and is "classically correct".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_punctuation

33degrees• 13 years ago

Nice! A couple of comments though

1) The separators in the top bar are a bit too 3d to fit with the rest 2) The button borders are not dark enough in the button groups

hnriot• 13 years ago

I don't see any design here, it's just change a few colors that don't go together. My opinion, you should have gone surfing.

anonfunction• 13 years ago

Apart from the logo, it's not doing it for me. That's not very helpful though so here's my one suggestion: the button hover state isn't very well distinguished form the regular button.

proexploit• 13 years ago

Really nice. I'd remove the hover effect from the disabled button style though. You want to communicate with the user that the item is not activated and having a hover just makes it a light colored button.

antoniuschan992• 13 years ago

Amit you are very talented. Thank you for this!

Check out an app I'm working on. I think you'll like it.

http://kokonautlabs.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/my-app/

antoniuschan992• 13 years ago

Also check out his app HipCV. It literally took me 20 seconds to turn my linkedin resume into a really really good resume lol.

Check it out:

https://hipcv.com/antonchan/r/linkedin-imported-resume-march...

websymphony6• 13 years ago

I am glad HipCV was useful for you.

websymphony6• 13 years ago

Thank you for your kind words Anton. I am glad you liked it.

Your app screenshots look good, I couldn't find a link to test it though. Would love to try it.

huhtenberg• 13 years ago

So now we have trivial UI themes floating in the top half of the Hacker News front page. Lovely, just lovely.

muxxa• 13 years ago

The buttons would be great with a separate :active style which reinforces that they are bona fide functioning buttons with some extra 3D on the mousedown.

eclipticplane• 13 years ago

I know you can't control the colors used by whoever uses your theme, but please consider offering fewer / more distinct colors. R/g colorblindness affects around 5-10% of males depending on region, which depending on your market, can be a huge subset. The default colors you're offering, if used together, are not distinct enough to be told apart. [1] This is not an easy problem to "fix", however, but generally limiting the number of colors and trying to make sure they are outside of the most common color blindness ranges [2].

Of course, the onus is on the designer using your templates; not you, but I always feel this information is relevant when discussing design themes.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/CuDiw

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Epidemiology

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