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Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

#31

I’m a big fan of how GitLab approaches things. Their design library is a tremendous resource: https://design.gitlab.com/

I've found GitLab as a product to be more difficult to use than GitHub. The pages seem more dense with lots of color, many more actions: they just feel busy. Basic features, like getting a permalink to a line of code, take 3-4 clicks in GitLab, when it's just 1 in GitHub.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

#32
- Letterboxd, as a movie fanatic, this app is great, and its community seems very welcoming.

- Feedly, it almost makes me forget I'm really missing Greader.

- Stripe, docs, dashboard, landing pages--everything they do ends up being top notch.

- Github (this is a weird one), didn't really appreciate the care for the UI until I had to use Gitlab extensively, the worst offenders are the PR UI--everything looks so cluttered, and it doesn't happen on Github.

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#33

Step Two ( https://steptwo.app ) brings a smile on my face every time I copy a 2FA token from it. Especially when coming from Authy, which has by far the most horrible UI ever created.

I'm using authy on mobile. Can you say more?

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

#35

Sublime Text just oozes productivity.

As much as I like Sublime Text, there’s plenty of solid text editors out there and I’d be happy enough with an alternative.

I spent an eternity looking for a good Git client, and found nothing even remotely pleasant to use until Sublime Merge came along.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I run Ubuntu on my personal machine and haven't found a suitable alternative yet. The more time I spend on my Mac work machine the more I'm thinking about switching my personal one due to this

I went from using i3 on my personal Linux machine, to my macOS machine for work. I've had the same thoughts about switching back, but it wasn't an option. Amethyst pulled me through the worst. It can't compare to i3. There's also this: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai , but I haven't tried it out because of the disclaimer: "You acknowledge that you understand the potential risk that may come from disabling arrow_…

The caveats section notes that

> If you are running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, you can reenable SIP after the scripting addition has been installed.

I'm not sure if that applies to only that version and no later versions.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

#39
Gerrit, the code review tool.

It's a perfect example of a tool that looks terrible if you've never seen it before, but after learning its core concepts you will never want to use any other code review system. It's fast, it's optimized for daily use, and it doesn't attempt to woo you with flashy features up front.

It has a tradeoff that most developer tools these days are too scared to pull off, the one where you can't onboard someone within a minute, but you will win them over once they start using it for a while.

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