Sneak Peek in on the New Design of Userstyles
Hi All,
After running user testing with our beta group, and receiving overall positive feedback, we’re moving forward with the new design for the Stylish website. I’d like to give a big thanks to members of our beta group that volunteered their time and gave us extensive and very helpful feedback!
Since it’s a big project, the design will be broken down to 2 stages. I’d like to share with you all screenshots from stage 1 (I’ll share notes about stage 2 when we’re closer to implementing it).
You’re welcome to give us feedback. As always, we’ll reply only to concrete feedback written in an appropriate language.
Stage 1 includes:
After running user testing with our beta group, and receiving overall positive feedback, we’re moving forward with the new design for the Stylish website. I’d like to give a big thanks to members of our beta group that volunteered their time and gave us extensive and very helpful feedback!
Since it’s a big project, the design will be broken down to 2 stages. I’d like to share with you all screenshots from stage 1 (I’ll share notes about stage 2 when we’re closer to implementing it).
You’re welcome to give us feedback. As always, we’ll reply only to concrete feedback written in an appropriate language.
Stage 1 includes:
- New design for the home page, results pages (popular styles, website styles, etc.), and style pages.
- No features, terminology or functionality changes will be included at this stage (we’ll update about these when we’re closer to stage 2).
- Improve style discovery
- Improve overall user experience
- Bring Userstyles to 2017 in terms of design and UI
- The shared screenshots include dummy content.
- We plan to release stage 1 at the end of the month or the beginning of April.
Comments
Make list view, that way the description of the style will be shown.
That is all.
Thank you for bringing userstyles.org into 2017!
2. I don't see search options.
3. What's that 'Archive this Style' button?, archive where? Agree, option about it would be nice, but if not might be styled, for me what's important is the page provide useful info on search results or style page even if it's hidden, for example, style category, author/style ID, MD5 checksum...
I'm afraid about is this server enough to handle the new theme though. even current web design seem really light, I sometimes heaving trouble when access or upload something on here. if the new design is heavier than now then the trouble would be happen more often.
;-)
Personally, I prefer a compact style with the maximum of information without the need to scroll all the time and possibility of functionality / customization than a beautiful site with too much large empty place .
Less is better for me.
It can be smart too of course...
Actually, I use the userscript "Table View Plus", which present the results in a table very useful for quick view and control.
It can sort userstyles by name / number of installs (by week / month), date of Update, date of creation etc...
Their screenshots can be viewed by hover on small icons.
It is compact with a max of styles in one page (200).
Have you plan something like this (maybe by options) ?
And add a favorites / sets functions to it ?
Can you also add "Collections", so users can make a list of their styles?
Looking at screenshot, sometimes it's hard to decide whether the style worths to be itstalled. So, the text description of style is required, IMO. Maybe it can be shown on mouseover event?
Plus, we'd like to see more info in style description:
style category , daily/week/total install counters
- Not sure which search option you're referring to, but the search box is in the top navigation bar and the search results page will look like the 'Results page' I've attach.
- Archive is instead of 'Delete' since in Stylish you don't really delete a style, you just take it out of the search results and you can always retrieve it as the owner, so we thought the word 'Archive' is more accurate.
- I understand that some of you prefer a list view. I like CodyMKW's suggestion of a button that allows choosing between grid and list view. I'll add it to our pipeline and we'll work on it in stage 2.
- For now we're not adding new features, but I'll add to the pipeline your suggestion for extra information points in the search results.
We're definitely expecting that some users will find the change hard to get used to, like with any change. We're trying to minimize this as much as we can by sharing information in advance and receiving feedback that will help us improve, if not in stage 1, at least in stage 2 of the launch.
We're not familiar with performance issues with the site right now. However, we're in the process of improving the infrastructure in any case, to support the new design. I hope it will solve the issue you're experiencing.
This is just one example of why IMO you guys need to quickly start paying attention to your userbase because I have talked to many DEVs now that are pulling their scripts and moving them exclusively over to greasy due to issues and then not getting replies literally for months now from Justin or whomever is running things there now.
Screenshot:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AhSqjTYUuHPKgcRAgf1Mr1_eKm5X-w
Don't you think that it is a bit ludicrous to say that even if everyone wants to read your site in a dark style, we should fix that problem ourselves? That's like McDonald's back in the day saying "yep, everyone wants a big burger like this "Big Mac thing" we "could" offer, but we're not going to offer it, instead we're just going to let them go home and make it themselves".....They would have been out of business 60+ yrs ago and Burger King would have stepped up and sold it instead to the frustrated under-valued customers.
If nobody enjoys reading your site, the DEVs will not bother posting any scripts here and.....as DEVs if we do not post any scripts here then nobody will want to read the site. If you agree with that logical statement have you realized what is missing from that equation? Stylish. Site owners/management. From what I can tell, all the rest including the Stylish extension that is a close "lite" cousin to Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey (similar products that have been around forever) rely on that simple equation of the developers nice enough to provide this site their hard work for free, and those ingesting that hard work, all in the end supporting your business model.
Hopefully new management can begin really listening to those fueling and ingesting your business to continue growing this site/product over your competition.
To access the whole list of discussions I have to clic the profle name or avatar image on the top left, it opens a partial list with a 'More discussions' link on bottom to annex more discussions at the end of the page, that is working effectively.
That was a humble opinion of 5% of users
about "grid or list", I like both but it's a good idea let the users choose what they want.
We really appreciate your feedback and we’ll take it under consideration in future iterations.
Thanks again for being a valuable part of the Stylish community.