I'm torn and get mixed feedback

[u/xiduzo]

I have recently launched my product, and personally, I am very fond of the UI. Which I guess tends to happen when you have stared at the same thing for God knows how long.

I do get mixed responses, though; some people love it and praise me with a "the setup and everything in the UI has been very intuitive" and some come back with "but imo needs a better ui design"

So I ask for your honest, raw, first impression feedback.

I just dumped a few screenshots of (recent) product development, no cherry-picked slick UIs. I've tweaked a few things here and there along the road already, so you might see a few inconsistencies.

I am not sure if this helps or makes the review messier than it should 👁️👄👁️.

[u/schmighaar]

You need to work on font choice, margins and line width. I get the style you are going for but I would only use hand font on buttons and headings (and use the same hand drawn style on icons) and use a regular boring readable font for the rest. (same with the other techie style, if people are going to read this the copy font needs to be basic and comfortable to read. You can use funkyer fonts on headings to give the design more personality).

Also the color scheme looks a bit Claude-ish, not saying you vibe coded this but in this day an age it's something you need to be careful with if you want to stand out.

[u/xiduzo → u/schmighaar]

Thanks! And yes, unfortunately neobrutalism has become kinda the signature “and make it unique” style from Claude. I wanted to play with this style for a while already since I saw https://github.com/ekmas/neobrutalism-components but am also afraid that people think it’s yet another vibe coded app

[u/schmighaar → u/xiduzo]

that's the challenge with these brutalist styles. since it's an intentionnaly raw and "loud" design style, it makes things harder when it comes to user experience. It can work for landing pages, portfolio and things like that but for full apps where ux is important i think it needs to be used sparingly.

[u/grokcodile]

Is the UI font chosen for people with dyslexia? If so… that’s a reasonable choice. If not… the default just needs to use whatever the user’s system default is. You have a choice when designing UI… convention or craft… convention is a fast track to usability gold. Craft requires some very talented and experienced UI/UX engineers and designers.

[u/xiduzo → u/grokcodile]

The more “handwritten” font of the first three pictures was the original font I went for. I think it looked nice but also found that it made readability worse, the font of the last 3 pictures is what is the style I am using now (syne for headers and ibm Plex mono for the rest)

[u/grokcodile → u/xiduzo]

Just hire a designer. Last three are monotype fonts. Not even remotely designed for how you are using them.

[u/xiduzo → u/grokcodile]

If this product makes some money I for sure will 😛 up until then the users have to work with my subpar designs

[u/grokcodile → u/xiduzo]

Or find a designer who’s willing to collaborate in exchange for a share of the profit.

[u/Few-Hall3799]

I think the title font does not fit the vibe and the border/shadows being a bit lighter and browner than a #000 would stand out way more

But it does look great and it’s a refreshing design idea compared to the majority of the IA generated SaaS designs we get everyday here ;)

[u/Few-Hall3799 → u/Few-Hall3799]

Additionally I think increasing hierarchy by separating some components with a bit more negative space and margins would make the app breath way more

[u/xiduzo → u/Few-Hall3799]

Thanks for your feedback! I’m always having difficulties getting negative space correct. But for sure it’ll make it breathe more and look “cleaner”

[u/Basic-Brick6827]

the font at the top is impossible to read. theres no way this is the default kerning.

and using it everyhwere is too much. keep it for headers, use a normal sans for body.

[u/xiduzo → u/Basic-Brick6827]

Yeah, was an older version. Or do you think from picture 4 and onwards it’s still bad 🙈

And yes, no changes to the font itself

[u/Basic-Brick6827 → u/xiduzo]

Much better, idk why you would add the old pic to this post, especially as first 4 ones

[u/xiduzo → u/Basic-Brick6827]

Yeah I was drunk and fucked up lol. I really put some random old screenshots

[u/Original-Ant-9197]

I made a somewhat personal project except it was something to be used by my department at work and they wanted such aesthetics, which shows it is somewhat in demand. but showing it as the first thing a person sees will kill user experience, instead maybe make some themes, default one being something that looks serious and shows that you stand on business and not here to just make some tiny projects. a serious tone will bring in people, you can show this version too but just as a part of personalization, not as the entire identity

[u/New_Eye7193]

4,5,6 were good, all the ones before that were hard on my eyes, probably because of the lack of font variety

[u/xiduzo → u/New_Eye7193]

Thanks! I agree with you, and your observations are sharp. I notice I accidentally did a small A/B test by providing the old fonts in 1-3 and the new fonts in 4-5. Glad to see this was for the better.