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Design Review of a few screens

Wobbly — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:12:36 +0000

Organization: Wobbly

Status: closed

Compensation: paid

Role: Graphic design, UX design, User experience

Wobbly is a chat app similar to whatsapp, but specifically for starting a union in a workplace.

We have a logo and are currently using a standard design system that we’re ok with using as a starting point (Material Design), but we’d really like to get a more unique look and feel to the app. Mocking up a few screens from feature ideas would be great, and also participating in discussions around approaches to features.

We’re looking to create a more diverse team so if you are not a white man please click through on our job!

How to Apply:

John (project lead) john@wobbly.app
https://github.com/Wobbly-App - our organisation page on github. https://projects.invisionapp.com/boards/N53Q1PVTZGP#/6254131 - the visual design guide that our previous designer put together. https://notesfrombelow.org/article/an-introduction-to-wobbly - long article that introduces Wobbly and want we want it to achieve.

Kiwi IRC web client design

Kiwi IRC — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:06:38 +0000

Organization: Kiwi IRC

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: UI/UX design

Kiwi IRC is a modern web IRC client built with Node.js and Vue.

The new incarnation of Kiwi IRC is starting to be pretty solid: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient

The lead developer Darren aka prawnsalad could use a hand with the interface presentation and layout.

I believe with this modern web client approach we can get rid of the image of IRC as a clunky and opaque interaction tool. Having the power of server-side makes all sorts of magical things possible (storage, data processing etc.). The ideal would be to GUIfy everything, so the non-techy user will not have to face any frightening /commands. I guess the hardest will be inventing a GUI for even the ChanServ commands like setting various flags for channels.

Perhaps the first step would be conducting a competitive analysis of new and emerging chat platforms.

Listing open source ones:

Here is a quick route to Kiwi IRC’s channel using the WIP new client: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://irc.freenode.net/kiwiirc

The submitter of this job posting uses the nickname buovjaga.

How to Apply:

Darren Whitlen (lead developer): https://github.com/prawnsalad
Source code repository: https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc

More Material Elements in XMPP Chat app

Conversations — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: Conversations

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: UI Designer & Coder

Conversations is a modern XMPP chat client for android. It already has some nice material design, but I think it would benefit from some more material elements like mentioned in that issue.

Thanks in advance! 😊

How to Apply:

Are you interested? Respond to the issue.
https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/issues/2327