searching within a community (this is probably requested previously but I can’t search previous posts. Please let me know if I’m wrong here!)
the subscriptions tab to become a button within the dock at the bottom. I frequently move between my subscriptions and I find it a little tucked away at the moment.

Regardless, love your work. It’s always a bit rich making requests for something that is FREE! So, again, thanks for all your hard work and feel free to disregard the above.

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[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I’m not very familiar with the iOS guidelines but try to refer to them sometimes. Are there any glaring issues you are aware of that Memmy has, with the guidelines, or is it more a lot of small things? I imagine it’s easier to stay within guidelines while using SwiftUI/UIKit but maybe it’s not.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Take any of the Apple apps for example. They implement the frosted glass effect to give you a sense of foreground and background and it looks just super nice. I sent two feedback text to Memmy about this but this low hanging fruit hasn’t been implemented yet.

Then the size of the big headers that shrink down when you scroll down to reveal more content. Just real eye sugar!

[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We don’t read the test flight feedback because most of it is extremely low quality and we get a ton of it.

Regarding glassmorphism, it’s something difficult to do in React Native. (although Bean does it so i guess possible) I believe both gk and i are not big fans of it anyways. I don’t hate it in certain places but i honestly really don’t like it in Mlem for example. Maybe because of all the varied content i can see come through it on Lemmy, where as in Messages or Mail it’s more monotone.

Regarding the tab bar going away on scroll. I believe this is not an accessible design and am also unaware of it ever being recommended by Apple. Also unaware of it being used in any apple apps. Totally fine to like it, just don’t think it’s an iOS design guideline.

Appreciate the feedback, though i guess i thought we were talking more about UX design over aesthetics.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just mentioned the tabs disappearing is better solved than in Apollo, didn’t say that was mandatory as per guidelines.

As for the frosted glass effect it is UI as well as UX, as UI contributes to the UX. If you personally don’t like it, that’s your thing. It’s especially nice to have the content scroll under the bars, it makes the static boring monotone footers and headers come to life and gives you the illusion of a bigger screen. Take the latest Netflix design on iOS for example. The header is huge, but the video poster moves so nicely under them. All the Apple iOS apps have this effect. And a lot of Apple users care

[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn’t contribute to UX, it’s purely a visual thing. I’m more interested in design guidelines that pertain to UX and usability.

Maybe we’ll add glassmorphism as an option someday, but the priority to me would be usability issues that go against apple guidelines.

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