{"id":140,"date":"2005-09-21T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2005-09-21T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T22:37:40","slug":"feeder-122-ui-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/feeder-122-ui-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeder 1.2.2 UI Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the other day<\/a> that I’d given Feeder<\/a> a UI update. I don’t normally write about stuff before it happens because it’s like a kiss of death, but I’m hoping to release Feeder 1.2.2 tomorrow featuring (amongst lots of other cool stuff and some bug fixes) an updated user interface. Here’s a sneak peak, click the image to see a full-size version:<\/p>\n

\"Feeder<\/a><\/div>\n

You can compare it with a screenshot of 1.2.1 here<\/a> (the windows are the same size, so you could open them both in tabs to compare).<\/p>\n

Fans of NetNewsWire<\/a> will notice a very familiar gradient status bar with shiny buttons at the bottom of the window. I tried to make the whole status bar shiny, but it was a little overwhelming, Aqua stripes seemed out of place and a plain colour was too, er, plain. So I went with this. While all the buttons are original and the gradient drawn using CoreGraphics, Feeder was always designed to look like a newsreader application, which in turn, at least in NNW’s case, looks something like an email client.<\/p>\n

Talking of NetNewsWire and UI updates, I agree with Brent’s analysis of UI trends<\/a>, which he posted a couple of weeks ago, where he said: <\/p>\n

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  1. Stripes are passé.<\/li>\n
  2. Margins are bad.<\/li>\n
  3. Brushed metal is yesterday\u2019s news.<\/li>\n
  4. The unified title-and-toolbar look is the new platinum.<\/li>\n
  5. The two-tone glass thing is big. Big, I tell you. Big.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I admit that reading Brent’s post and seeing my own redesign of Feeder’s iTunes preview<\/a> made it so I had to do this UI update now and not save it for a later version. I’ve been planning it for months but kept putting it on the backburner as time got squashed and things happened<\/a>. <\/p>\n

    Feeder’s redesign is not only intended to be more pleasing on the eye: removing the margins makes more room for the actual content of the window and it paves the way for the inclusion of some new features in the near future. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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