For Sofa 4.0, I redesigned the Home Screen to include rich, widget-style cards for the primary lists: The Pile, Logbook, and Pinned Items.
I liked that this gave people handy, scannable information about what's inside each list, but also brought a quirky style to the app.
Since the release, I've been running into some layout issues across devices which gave me a chance to iterate on the design a bit. I personally love the way The Pile card is designed. You have the title on the left, and the contents on the right. I wanted to see if I could bring that same structure to Logbook and Pinned Items. It turns out I can!
This new design brings a few benefits:
- The content is easy to scan
- There are still strong, visual differences between each card
- It takes up less vertical space to allow seeing more lists below
- It gives me a good template to design future cards (of which I have ideas)
- It still retains the quirky personality that I'm trying to bring to the app
While you do technically get less information than the previous design, I think you get enough information.
This design change is live as of Sofa 4.0.5.