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Concept: "The Front Page"by ~clindhartsen

Designs & Interfaces / Application Interfaces

As I posted on my dA Journal, I am planning on making an actual functioning application, a newsreader (see [link] ), and this is a little bit of experimentation on how to lay this thing out.

I was a long time user of Live Bookmarks on Firefox, where you'd plug in an RSS feed address, and you'd get this list of headlines to look over, and then click if you wanted to actually read the message. That doesn't exist in Chrome, and I missed that, and it does exist in IE 9 of all things, but I don't like the way that browser presents it's favorites bar, so I decided to build an application of this type.

So, at this point, this is purely conceptual. I'm thinking it should be a fixed size, and possibly present the story description included in the feed, maybe limiting it to two lines of visible text, but I'm not sure about that.

Also, I experimented with styles here, the right an evolution of the left, but still, would a cleaner UI work better on a PC, or should I cling to a little bit of a newspaper related feel?

Any input on this would be much appreciated. To an extent, this is an application for myself, but I'd also love to built this for people out there in general.

=greendude33 Feb 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

would it have google reader functionality

~cgardner2020 May 15, 2011

Dude, I can totally make this a rocking application with Silverlight. It then can run everywhere! Silverlight is coming to iOS and Android soon says a little quiet mouse.

~rajadain Feb 19, 2011

I love the borderlessness of it all.

I think that instead of a regular box for 'maximize', you should have a mini-reader button, as seen in Metro-designed Microsoft Zune and Telerik F!acedeck here: [link] .

I agree with everything

VARKODE below me has said. Multiple feed handling is necessary. On my iPod's Pulse [link] I have about 25 feeds. In addition to scrolling between them, there should also be a search function or some form of keyboard input (I know this isn't part of visual interface but bear with me) that can help jump to feeds.

As for newspaper feel vs computer, I think an interesting example are the Chrome apps developed by NYT [link] and HuffPo [link] The former tries to maintain the newspaper format, but the latter (never having been a traditional print product) goes to something more modern. Interestingly, I find reading longer articles easier at NYT.

I think Metro is, above all, clean. It removes the noise and introduces space, and you have to try maintain that emptiness while incorporating images and limited text. Good luck!

~VARKODE Feb 16, 2011

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I think you should allow for images, some of the rss feeds I follow don't even have text, they're just images.

You need a way to view all feeds, I currently have over 30, and scrolling at the top would take forever.

For the timestamp you have; February 11, 2011, 22 minutes ago, why not just have 22 minutes ago? repetitive information.

I would limit the amount of text that shows up in the front page so every entry has the same height. If text is greater then entry, create a "Read More" button. (No reason a longer article should take more space than another article)</i>

Just my thoughts, take it with a grain of salt. Great idea thought, I love rss readers.

~math0ne Feb 12, 2011

They both look great, but I like the left one, you should also offer an inverse color option for people who use dark desktops. If it integrated with google reader I would use it

~BassUltra Feb 12, 2011 Hobbyist Interface Designer

I also think you should make smaller mockups, so you know what it looks like on something like a netbook which has a small resolution, and things actually fit the screen.

~Jackknife35 Feb 11, 2011

I am a huge fan of your works an love the idea of this project of yours!
It seems like zune fonts would go quite well with it, but that's probably out of the realm of possibility

P.S.: The one on the right looks frakkin amazing.

~clindhartsen Feb 12, 2011 Student Interface Designer

The one on the right essentially is the Zune fonts, well, the same family, though the dominate one visible is Segoe Condensed.

~BassUltra Feb 11, 2011 Hobbyist Interface Designer

The problem I see with this is how can I access the last website feed if I was at the first and had probably 10 feeds. I would have to click on another feed so that it moves to the left and click on another for it to move again. Repeat until reached desired feed.

~clindhartsen Feb 11, 2011 Student Interface Designer

That's a fair point, and I'll look into how this could be worked out.

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