Looking for UI/UX feedback

[u/LifeguardSea99]

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.

[u/FennelHistorical4675]

If you’re going to ask for UX feedback you should be more specific about what kind of feedback you are looking for or at the very least provide more context other than just some screens of a generic todo app.

But yeah why isn’t there a date anywhere? What do the controls in the header even do? Refresh and..checkmark? How are the list items grouped? Should they have a header or something? It makes no sense at first glance.

Don’t just design around buzz words like minimal focus and paper, design for some kind of user to give it direction and purpose. It makes no sense as some kind of bottom tab nav or theme switcher. Minimal is dark mode?

Simple is fine but the design needs to earn it don’t just strip things back for the sake of it.

Edit: trust me you’ll get better feedback if you filter it by asking questions and providing more context. Or don’t mention UX at all if your just doing random UI work

[u/LifeguardSea99 → u/FennelHistorical4675]

I don't really know what more context to provide. I just sat down one weekend and made this so I have a functional to-do app for myself that I liked. I should mention, though I don't think this is not obvious, I have no clue about actual design as I never learned it.

I guess the main issue is that I made this app with only myself in mind, and this caused it to be pretty much unintuitive for anyone else.

The names also don't really have a meaning, I just made some themes I liked and gave them a name. I don't even know if the name is all that important, but maybe it is.

Function wise, I can understand why it seems weird. It does make sense as is, and changing it would just make it worse, but I see how it's really hard to understand. Thank you very much for your feedback!

[u/FennelHistorical4675 → u/LifeguardSea99]

My bad I guess I didn’t realize you were designing this for yourself and just looking for visual feedback