blurymind
commented
3 years ago Another idea is to have these widgets closed by default, but add buttons in the header/corners to call them,similar to how artrage does it
Instead of an x button on each widget,we can have a pin button. When the pin is on, the widget stays on the screen, when the pin is off, the widget gets dismissed when clicked outside.
If you want to keep the chickenpaint branding, it would make much more sense to use a small logo, instead of a giant header. That header space can be much more valuable on mobile.
Some widgets can be slightly transparent to make them less obtrusive when covering the canvas.
thenickdude
I made a small css adjustment when its running in portrait mode.
Before:
You cant move the brush pattern palette because its handle is out of screen
After:
It is usable on portrait mode screen, also some sizes are dramatically reduced to give more precious space to the canvas, while still being easy to tap
I really wish each of these floating widgets can be collapsible and on portrait modes chickenpaint has most of the widgets collapsed by default.
A very elegant example of UX in a mobile painting app imo is artrage
You can see how its widgets are hidden in the corners by default and they get out of your way while you paint
Maybe we can get some more precious canvas space by not wasting it for a branding text and a file button. But I wonder where the file button would go to then? Nexto to where undo/redo is?
Thats something that would be fantastic to tackle for chickenpaint, as it is probably the best html5 based painting app atm imo and the platform has the huge advantage of working on smartphones out of the box. Maybe in the future we can even turn chickenpaint into a progressive web app. It's exposure is terrible atm because the only way to use it is to sign up for an oekaki board, then spend half an hour trying to find the button on it to start chickenpaint.