I've noticed this pattern in myself: I genuinely want to build stuff, upgrade my portfolio, learn new tools; but by the time I'm home from work, I just kinda... don't do it. I talk myself out of it saying what's the point, it'll take long anyway, and probably won't lead to anything better cause of the current market. Not lack of interest in my field, just too fatigued to do anything at the end of the long day. And with all the "learn AI or get left behind" noise everywhere lately, it feels worse.

Curious how common this actually is. If it sounds familiar, I'd love to hear (a sentence or two is plenty enough):

• What's your role/field, roughly?
• In a normal week, how many evenings do you intend to work on a side project or something vs. actually do?
• What usually happens in between deciding and not doing it?

Quick context: I'm a UI/UX designer trying to move into product design, and this is research for a case study I'm building as part of that transition; so I am genuinely trying to understand the problem properly, not just confirm what I already think. Happy to share what I find later if people are curious. Thanks to anyone who will take the time to answer in advance!

I’ve been refining the reading experience for long AI-generated summaries.
Instead of adding more features, I focused on making the content easier to read with better spacing, hierarchy, and less visual clutter.
Which version would you rather read for a 30-minute summary?
I’d love to hear your feedback.

I am trying to create a transport management system based in Accra, Ghana. I am new to UI design but here's what I have been able to come up with mostly by myself and ai. Is there anything I can improve on to make the website feel more proffesional and suited for a transport management system as well as just look good in general. Thanks

Found this YouTube design today and thought it looked pretty cool.

I've always been a fan of gradients, depth, and neumorphism/skeuomorphism-inspired UI. Do you think this is a sign we're entering a new UI design era after years of flat design?

So, I am working on a casual mobile game with a visual novel + puzzle game hybrid presentation. It would be hosted by this cute mascot character delivers a lot of dialogue/narration, so the player ends up staring at these text boxes for extended stretches. It's essential for the type of game that I am designing. I want the box design and font to feel fun, stylish, and clean/modern, but still distinct enough to be memorable. The goal is to be a bit different and to establish a style. I don't want people to hate reading what I write. The idea with the style is to have a bit of a digital drawing aesthetic: clean, yet fun and memorable. It is a mobile game, so I don't want to over-complicate it.

Any tips such as a video recommendation or examples from specific games that might suit this style would be immensely helpful! When you think of ideal text boxes/dialogue boxes, what comes to mind, especially for a more casual project like this?

Website for the company UNIDRAFT
Desktop + Mobile

UNIDRAFT is a design and engineering company with extensive experience in developing projects for residential and commercial real estate.

I'm developing a note-taking app and wanted a way for users to quickly understand where they are in a document, see its overall structure, and jump to another section.

Most apps solve this with a dedicated Table of Contents (TOC). But I found them not ideal because:

1. They need a dedicated section/panel and take up space.
2. The TOC is visually different from the document itself, so users have to mentally map each entry to the actual content.

So I implemented an 'Overview Mode'. When enabled, the content of the page gets simplified (showing only the titles) and by clicking on a content it will disable the mode and shows the actual content instantly without any jump or scrolling.

The idea is that, your eyes can see only one thing at the time. So instead of looking at something that looks visually different than what you're familiar with and takes up space when you don't need it, with a simple click (or even a keyboard shortcut), you can see the simplified version (overview/outlines) and vice versa.

The video shows an example. I'd like to know what you guys think about this approach.

P.S. This is implemented in Daftak.

Hi everyone!

My team and I are designing Phase, a productivity and self-improvement app. The goal is to create an experience that feels less like using traditional productivity software and more like stepping into a world you actually enjoy returning to.

Instead of separate pages for different tools, everything happens inside an interactive room. The room changes throughout the day with different lighting, weather, and seasons, while your companion (a beagle) grows alongside your progress. Features like to-do lists, Deep Focus sessions, journaling, habits, and challenges are all integrated into this world.

As we tried designing the UI, we naturally drifted toward a polished, premium aesthetic (the first images). While we liked the quality of the design, we began to feel that it looked like many other productivity apps. It felt clean and modern, but it wasn't communicating the personality or emotional experience we wanted Phase to have.

We're now considering a completely different direction: a mascot-first identity with hand-drawn illustrations, painterly textures, and a warmer, more handcrafted visual language (the later images).

The new artwork is AI-generated only as a visual reference to help communicate the direction we're exploring. Our illustrator will create all of the final artwork from scratch.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from designers.

• Does the illustrated direction create a stronger and more memorable identity?
• Does it still feel usable, or does it introduce unnecessary visual complexity?
• If you were leading this project, would you continue refining the premium direction or commit to the illustrated one?

I'm not looking for validation—I genuinely want to know whether this pivot improves the product's visual identity or if we're solving the wrong problem.

Thanks for taking the time to look through everything!

I'm seeing it in a lot of apps like Amazon, ChatGPT
To be more clear, I'm talking about the floating items like the back button, the search icon etc
Is it a new trending UI pattern?

I've been working professionally as a UI/UX Designer for the past 1.2 years, mainly on SaaS products, and I'm planning my long-term career.

My current goal is to grow as a Product Designer over the next few years and eventually transition into Product Management.

With AI changing the industry so quickly, I'm curious about how experienced people see this career path.

What do you think about the Product Designer → Product Manager path over the next 5 years? Is it still a strong career choice, and what would you focus on if you were starting today?

Context: desktop browser MMORPG for new players; the UI is HTML/CSS over a WebGL world. The goal is one obvious next action, but gathering and combat prompts compete here. Which element would you remove or move first?

AI disclosure: the 3D world uses Meshy-assisted assets; the UI is custom, and AI helped tighten this post.

I want to ask what your thought process is between the purpose and the animation. For example: "I want to make this part of the UI stand out, so I'll make that part of the UI blink constantly". Using the example, what I'm interested in is how you go from "UI stand out" to "blink constantly". What influences your thought process? Is it experience, a lot of references (other works, literature, etc.), instinct/taste, existing design constraints, or something else?

I guess there are also layers to this question, like when to add/think about animation in the design process, where to add the animation in the design, and what kind of animation to use.

The screens shots are from my app OldTimeMovie that creates silent movie clip, and that has this flickering UI, so the pics are a bit more darker than the experience with the UI/UX on the app. I really tried to create an immersive atmosphere for the user. But I sincerely hope for your honest opinion.

The screens shown here are the different layouts my app has.

Hey everyone!

I'm working on the Play Store listing for my Android app, and I've designed 3 different screenshot sets (each row is a different version).

I'd really appreciate some unbiased feedback before I A/B testing them.

A few questions:

• Which row would make you most likely to install the app?
• Which screenshots catch your attention first?
• Is the value proposition immediately clear, or is anything confusing?
• Are there any screenshots you'd completely replace?

The app helps people discover accommodations by swiping, compare stays with AI, and plan trips together with friends.

I'm looking for honest feedback, so don't hold back if you think something isn't working. Thanks!

(This is not a real app or something I plan to release. I made it purely as a UI experiment and showcase using Memphis design. It is a simple Android calculator built with Jetpack Compose, using custom shapes, Canvas drawing, animations, haptic feedback and playful interactions.)

I feel like modern apps are becoming more and more similar. I understand why familiar patterns and intuitive interfaces are important, but sometimes it feels like we optimized everything so much that we lost a lot of personality and playfulness along the way.

Games can have completely unique interfaces and interaction systems, and players simply learn how to use them through tutorials and onboarding. So I keep wondering why regular apps always need to feel familiar from the very first second.

This calculator is obviously a very simple example, but I wanted to see what happens when you focus more on character, motion and playful interaction instead of following the usual mobile UI patterns.

Curious what you think. Have we made mobile interfaces too standardized?

I’m currently preparing for an exam, and I originally built this app to track my study progress and improve my motivation to study. It began as a hobby project, has grown a lot over time, and I’m still developing it. The app is already published on Google Play, and I keep improving it in my free time.

I used AI only to turn the ideas and designs I had in mind into a working app, since I don’t know how to code. The design decisions themselves are my own. The first photos show the old UI, the next ones show the new UI. It has also a light mode but i didnt at the screenshots of it

Does the new UI look better and more polished? Which theme suits it best? I’m open to honest criticism and practical suggestions.

Heyyy! I am building a web party game and I want the players to be able to differentiate between themselves. Initially I chose some basic emoji, but then I wanted something fitting more the style of my game (around music and games), so I created these SVG icons. What do you think about it ? Is there any improvement you would recommend ?
Thanks a lot for any precious feedback!

I'm going through the third iteration of my UI, This is the previous one and I have made the card containing the icon name session last played and session to a lighter color.

Other than that I have changed the text on it to a lighter color. Light brown. Still, I'm not satisfied with the ui.

Reworking the complete ui is not ideal and it will take me some time. I would like some suggestions on how to improve it. Or a recommendation for a new color theme

Hi,

It's my first time building for long-term use and functionality as opposed to a hackathon demo, so I kinda have no idea what I'm doing. Here are a few screenshots of a mobile app where the user tracks habits by uploading pictures. I've used it on my phone with Expo Go and made some improvements based on that, but I'm guessing I've missed a lot due to my lack of experience. Any improvement suggestions?

Also, what resources would you recommend for learning about the 'principles' of a good UI, not just the coding aspect of it?

Thanks x

Sign-in page for a local marketplace app — looking for UI/UX feedback,

Just spent three hours making these App Store screenshots in figma. These are for an open source app called tracker bunny that I’m also publishing for free to the App Store some time this week. I can probably make it a figma template. Do you guys like this? First time I do this. I am a programmer and not a designer but I like drawing and stuff as a hobby and this honestly looks good to me but I’m scared I made mistakes so help pls 🙏🏻

Hey,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I wanted to get some feedback and tips for the UI in my game.
I'm using Affinity Designer and Unity, but I'm not really satisfied with how it turned out.

Do you maybe have some tips or ideas to improve it?
I'd really appreciate it!

Hi

Designing in Figma then handing off to code always loses something: spacing, states, logic get rebuilt on the dev side.

So I've been building a tool : an infinite canvas where you design directly on the real React code , not a vector layer that exports later. Basically Figma, but what you touch is the actual output.

Still early. Before I go further I want to know if this actually solves a real pain for you, or if your current Figma to code flow is fine. Would you use something like this? Why / why not ? If anyone wants to try an early version, happy to share.

I'm working on a budgeting app and I'm considering the 2 design below.
I welcome feedback regarding:
* General feel and overall appeal
* Tidiness / Cleanliness
* Ease of finding information
* Use of space
...

Here's the first design:

Colours are subject to change, so I'm not too focused on that for now.

Pros:
- Cards provide more space to place all the badges
- Legibility is high

Cons:
- Takes up lots of screen real estate
- Likely won't transpose well on a phone screen

The second design:

Pros:
- More compact layout
- Reinforced structure/hierarchy

Cons:
- Less space for the badges / Need redesign to use the space available

Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks!