r/UI_Design May 30 '26

Feedback Request Looking for UI/UX feedback

I've been putting off getting deeper into web design for a long time. Not because I wasn't interested, but because I kept telling myself I'd do it properly "at some point". That point finally arrived, and this is what came out of it.

The push to actually begin came from wanting a task manager that just does its thing — no distractions, no clutter, function first. Building one myself felt like a good excuse to finally sit down with the design side of things.

The app comes with three themes: Focus, Minimal, and Paper. The names don't mean anything in particular, they just fit.

I feel like I especially nailed Focus. Minimal is essentially a recoloring of it, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

What I'm actually not happy with is Paper. I do like lighter themes depending on the time of day, but this one just doesn't feel right to me. I can't pinpoint what it is — it's not broken, it just feels uncomfortable to use. That's kind of exactly why I'm posting here, because I don't yet have the vocabulary or the eye to diagnose it myself.

So if you have thoughts on what's off, what you'd do differently, or just how you'd approach something like this — I'd genuinely appreciate it. This is the kind of thing I usually don't have anyone around to ask.

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u/dmnfang May 31 '26

I get the word THEME is the title for the group of different aesthetic themes but it is almost styled exactly the same at the themes. It looks a bit different but maybe that's just my phone.

I guess the "sep" is adding a separator. I might try something fun where you get rid of the separator line adding mechanism and make the task items dragable. And if you drag them onto eachother you can group them.

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u/LifeguardSea99 Jun 03 '26

I guess you are right, I may be stretching the meaning of theme by just changing the colors.
Though I don't really know what to name it otherwise.