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RE: Busy January News: Alpha Release updates, 2 weeks before Public Beta release, Donation report, What's next?
Don't get me wrong, I have huge respect for all Steem developers. But even Busy UI seems late 90's or early 2000's.(Steemit is early-middle 90's) Compare to beauty of Akasha, Busy is not beautiful enough to give good impression to users, consequently not attractive to ordinary users. Akasha has Bogdan, who is very impressive digital artist. I really think Steem should hire digital artist ASAP. It's matter of die or live.
What you see there is 20% if the Busy design potential. We are far from having our final design product. This is an Alpha version in which we focused on main features like posting, voting, and not the design/interface or real user experience.
90/2000 i'm not sure if you know what you're talking about. Unless Facebook, Slack, Rocketchat, are from 90's, dont get me wrong, this is the design trends 2010-2015, not 90-2000 even if i could agree on the fix sidebar/iframe early 90 style. But we could discuss this for hours. I've seen Akasha and it does not surprise me at all, wait & see Busy in few month after our redesign...
you'll be surprised ;)
Also i'd like to add that ordinary users dont necessarily like futuristic designs.. they mostly like to use what they're familiar with.
I'm not sure what you are talking about, busy's design is modern, clean and simple. Tool bar on the side is excellent to avoid overloading interface and you can even hide it completely which is great . Akasha UI looks like this
I'm curious why do you think Akasha's interface is beautiful while busy's is not ?
I must say I consider the Akasha sidebar to look more "uplifting" somehow, which probably has to do with the colors used. Whereas the Busy sidebar looks good, it is a bit darker in color and the text doesn't stand out as clearly.