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

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Post by 600frogs »

roydivision wrote: post #69
600frogs wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, interesting. I think we've arrived at a very similar setup, albeit implemented in different ways. I too use a MacBook and external monitor, and fullscreen my apps, but I just let them take up the whole screen minus the bar at the top, rather than explicitly use the fullscreen new workspace feature. I then swap between apps by binding all my most common apps to F1-F6 using Thor, which I find is easier to navigate…

I use full screen apps on my Mac and switch between them using ALT-Tab. But there is a bug whereby you don’t always get the window of the app showing if you ALT-Tab too quickly, even though it is selected. I might try something like your setup, or the one above instead.

I'd definitely recommend giving dedicated hotkeys (one per app) a try - it's very hard to go back to alt-tabbing after being able to switch so effortlessly. As I say, I use Thor, but I'm sure there's a bunch of alternatives out there.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #31
mr_cyborg wrote: post #5

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.

Coming from bitbucket I find gitlab design too busy as well and missing some basic obvious functionality which could be there but it's not intuitive. For example, when viewing a merge request I can't find a way to copy the target branch name.

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

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Post by LinAGKar »

HKH2 wrote: post #61
desbo wrote: post #22

It's a small detail, but after moving to iOS from Android recently I discovered Universal Clipboard: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209460 . You copy text on one device and paste it on the other. A great piece of UX, and an example of the best interface being no interface at all.

KDE Connect has a shared clipboard plugin. https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Clipboard

Too bad Google blocked it in Android 10

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

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Post by gnomespaceship »

kyriakos wrote: post #75
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Coming from bitbucket I find gitlab design too busy as well and missing some basic obvious functionality which could be there but it's not intuitive. For example, when viewing a merge request I can't find a way to copy the target branch name.

Hi! You can copy the branch name at the bottom of the right sidebar with one click: https://i.imgur.com/O3StMBA.png

Or in the merge request widget, below the description: https://i.imgur.com/V72v9jj.png

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