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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

I want to discuss the topic of the new design for Electrum Wallet.
I think this design is outdated.
I suggest developers create a public address with money from which to pay designers .
What do you think about it ?
Is it necessary at all?

Beautiful UI are not really important for electrum imo

You don't need Fanny features in electrum such as wallet charts showing how price history and things like that.
There are many wallets that do that, and also naby different portfolio trackers around.

When someone uses electrum, the goal is just to control bitcoin and its private keys.
Features like a better lightning network experience are much better.

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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 05:56:09 AM

But the design of the Android app repels many People.
It just upsets me.

My words were about Electrum for PC. I don't know what's the status of Electrum for Android since I don't use it because it doesn't work with hardware wallet.
So Electrum for Android may need something more than just fancier UI.

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Quote from: NeuroticFish on August 12, 2022, 02:04:18 AM

Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

I want to discuss the topic of the new design for Electrum Wallet.
I think this design is outdated.
I suggest developers create a public address with money from which to pay designers .
What do you think about it ?
Is it necessary at all?

There were small discussions here and there from people wanting UI/UX changes, but again, small ones.
From what I remember the problem is that the UI/UX is too heavily tied with the underlying code, so first of all a huge refactoring/rewrite is needed in order to get to a decoupled UI that can be customized/rewritten by a designer.

So the first discussion is not about paying a designer - somebody may be doing it even for free if it's decoupled - the biggest problem is the changes in the code, which I guess nobody is too keen to make.

It's very bad if the problem lies so deep.
Maybe then it will be possible to spend this money to pay programmers.
I like electrum and I use almost all its features.
But the design of the Android app repels many People.
It just upsets me.

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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

I want to discuss the topic of the new design for Electrum Wallet.
I think this design is outdated.

I do not have any opinion about Desktop UI, as for me it is fine. But android application looks like from previous era - it is just ugly. Fresh look would make it much more popular I think. I appreciate features which are there, but it is really hard to say it is user-friendly. Most people would like to keep it simple, like in (for example) Blue Wallet.

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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

What do you think about it ?
Is it necessary at all?

I am not disputing that to be necessary, but the kind of wallets we are having that have good UI can not be compared with Electrum, most of the wallets have a single address generated, many belongs to centralized exchanges and looking for more ways noncustodial wallets can be linked with their exchanges, many are close source, most do not have replace-by-fee and coin control.

This makes UI not necessary for electrum because an experienced bitcoin user will surely have a reason not to make use of many other wallets. But if latest modern UI is used, it may attract newbies to use Electrum, but for people like me, a good design is not what I need to hold my money, the functionality and the ease of use is what I mostly needed, and Electrum offers that.

Electrum UI is not even that bad, you may think it is not modern enough, but the UI is also not old type too, but I think Electrum developers are more after wallet functionality than the appearance. Functionality is more important.

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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

I suggest developers create a public address with money from which to pay designers .

Electrum core developers are just volunteers and doing it for free
so if money will be involved, it's up to the users who want an specific update or feature to offer a bounty.

Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

Is it necessary at all?

For the desktop version (Qt), not much. It looks good actually.
For the Android version (Kivi), yeah, it could use some improvement (but I'm not using it).

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Quote from: Delta_Freak on August 12, 2022, 01:44:56 AM

I want to discuss the topic of the new design for Electrum Wallet.
I think this design is outdated.
I suggest developers create a public address with money from which to pay designers .
What do you think about it ?
Is it necessary at all?

There were small discussions here and there from people wanting UI/UX changes, but again, small ones.
From what I remember the problem is that the UI/UX is too heavily tied with the underlying code, so first of all a huge refactoring/rewrite is needed in order to get to a decoupled UI that can be customized/rewritten by a designer.

So the first discussion is not about paying a designer - somebody may be doing it even for free if it's decoupled - the biggest problem is the changes in the code, which I guess nobody is too keen to make.
Then, a second discussion will be about UI/UX and has to be done carefully. I have quite an experience with designers doing things look nice and lack usefulness. If not done with extreme care, a new nice UI done by somebody not "dreaming" all the functionalities of Electrum may actually harm the product.

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I want to discuss the topic of the new design for Electrum Wallet.
I think this design is outdated.
I suggest developers create a public address with money from which to pay designers .
What do you think about it ?
Is it necessary at all?

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