'Post to Reddit' - Design about dawn

[saket]

This looks quite nice to start with!

If it (still) matters, I was thinking that the post screen need not be a full-screen screen. It might look good as a dialog, somewhat similar to Things:

People aren't going to type a lot on phone, so a dialog should have enough space for them to share a link or type a short self-text. In case users want more space, they could always switch to full-screen compose.

Another advantage is that when a link is shared to Dank from another app, the background app will still be visible behind the dialog. This gives you a feeling that you aren't leaving your current app. I'm not sure if I'm able to explain this properly, but the cognitive overhead of switching apps is higher than smaller share dialogs.

[dotvhs]

So here are some more designs, closer to the idea of yours @saket.

A simpler one that would require a picker before that (probably from a FAB):
https://invis.io/H6PVTGBKXWT#/340116544_Create_Post-2-Simple

And a bit more advanced which I am not entirely on board with, because it is using tabs which are non-existent in Dank:
https://invis.io/H6PVTGBKXWT#/340116545_Create_Post-2-Tabs
NSFW switch on: https://invis.io/H6PVTGBKXWT#/340116546_Create_Post-2-Tabs_-_NSFW

[dotvhs]

I fully understand what you mean. I could do this the way you shown, yeah. I will think more about that.

[Tunous]

I think that having post screen as a dialog is a good idea. I like how it looks in your designs @voythas (version without tabs).

One thing I would change here is to remove that formatting bar from the dialog for text post and instead add a button to full screen editor somewhere. So we would have 4 screens in total: dialogs for text, image and link posts plus a full-screen version for text post with all the formatting options available.

[saket]

Looks nice!

One thing I would change here is to remove that formatting bar from the dialog for text post and instead add a button to full screen editor somewhere.

Agree with @Tunous. Will keep this screen consistent with comment reply and message reply designs.

The version without tabs looks cleaner to me as well, but I'm not sure how switching between link, self-text and image will look like in this case.

[dotvhs]

Yeah, I will put more thought to it. Expect new designs this weekend probably.

[dotvhs]

Here's new design that covers your ideas and should also resolve issue of switching between different post types: https://invis.io/H6PVTGBKXWT#/340605335_Create_Post-2-Simple_V2

[Tunous]

One thing that is missing is an option for selecting subreddit which would be needed when posting via share action or from frontpage.

[dotvhs]

One thing that is missing is an option for selecting subreddit which would be needed when posting via share action or from frontpage.

I thought it perhaps could be a two step process in that case to not overclutter that UI? Not sure how I feel about that just yet.

[saket]

A team member from my company's design team has agreed to help me with this. He has some ideas on how the dialog could be animated as well. I'll sit with him and sketch out some ideas based on your designs, @dotvhs

Opening a PR in the OG repository to track this: saket/dank#7

[dotvhs]

I hope you don't mind @saket that I will keep working on my designs.

Here's something I created today:

Higher resolution version is located here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqxup73rdybgy9i/dank_post.mp4?dl=0

Designs alone:

[saket]

@dotvhs not at all, please keep going. Your ideas are good and I'll probably end up using some of them.

To give some feedback on this interaction, this is similar to what the official app does: show options for post kind (self-text, image, link) before opening the post screen. I think one problem with this is if you choose the wrong kind or change your mind afterwards, you can't change the kind without closing the post screen and clicking on FAB again.

By the way, do you have ideas on where to fit subreddit selection here?

[dotvhs]

To give some feedback on this interaction, this is similar to what the official app does: show options for post kind (self-text, image, link) before opening the post screen. I think one problem with this is if you choose the wrong kind or change your mind afterwards, you can't change the kind without closing the post screen and clicking on FAB again.

Yeah, I'm aware of that. The previous version had this solved by keeping current type as a button.

By the way, do you have ideas on where to fit subreddit selection here?

I had two, but I am not very proud of them, really. One is a bit unconventional, like this:

And another is more of a workaround of the problem, which would be not displaying FAB on frontpage/popular/all/multireddits. :(

I will think about this more soon.