RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by bradly » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 1:30 AM UTC

RubyGems.org Redesign
rubygems.org

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by hayksaakian » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:08 AM UTC

first impression:

i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by tomdale » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:10 AM UTC

Huge thanks to DockYard for working on the design on this; it looks amazing!

As an open source maintainer, one of the most valuable things people can contribute is great design. Not a lot of designers think to spend their spare time contributing to open source.

If you work at a company with great designers and you ever notice they have some spare cycles, you can have a huge impact by helping them contribute to your favorite open source project. Not only does the open source project get desperately-needed design, your company gets the increased visibility that goes with it. (How much is that DockYard logo on the front page worth in advertising $$$?)

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by thejosh » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:11 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

first impression: i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

No offence but even with the extremely bright colour scheme it was quite obvious.

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by zend3v » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:11 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

first impression: i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

It says "Search" and I found it in 3 seconds.

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by ksec » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:16 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

first impression: i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

Same here. The design bar were "hidden" and non obvious.

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by brvs » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:21 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

first impression: i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

I saw it immediately but I can see how that can happen. On the web, an underline doesn't quite scream "input" as much as a white rectangle with a border does.

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by leftnode » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:23 AM UTC

thejosh wrote: post #4

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

first impression: i spent about 30 seconds scanning around the page looking for the search bar

No offence but even with the extremely bright colour scheme it was quite obvious.

Not with a smaller monitor. 13" rMBP and it took me a while to see it - it's obscured by the globe wireframe.

https://picto.io/i/IatX8owh.png

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by xfalcox » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:41 AM UTC

leftnode wrote: post #8

thejosh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No offence but even with the extremely bright colour scheme it was quite obvious.

Not with a smaller monitor. 13" rMBP and it took me a while to see it - it's obscured by the globe wireframe. https://picto.io/i/IatX8owh.png

And the globe wireframe doesn't show either on my QHD monitor or in my FullHD portrait...

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by rohitarondekar » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 2:47 AM UTC

tomdale wrote: post #3

Huge thanks to DockYard for working on the design on this; it looks amazing! As an open source maintainer, one of the most valuable things people can contribute is great design. Not a lot of designers think to spend their spare time contributing to open source. If you work at a company with great designers and you ever notice they have some spare cycles, you can have a huge impact by helping them contribute to your f…

This looks good but two things:

1] The guides section is still on the older design which I'm guessing will be updated later?

2] IMHO on the show gem page the authors/owners section should be moved below licence + versions/runtime-deps sections. The later are more important for first time scanning especially when looking for a new gem.