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Winter - Main Window Toolbar

by Daniel Tan Apr 3, 2011
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  1. Boltclock_dribbble Daniel Tan

    Here's the first ever screenshot of my upcoming Windows Twitter client, Winter! A pretty small crop, but only because I don't want to reveal too much yet... ;)

    Hopefully you can guess what the three icons on this toolbar (is it even a bar?) stand for. If not, well, they're New Tweet, Refresh Timeline and Options. The Options button actually reveals a context menu when clicked, but that's not important right now. Indeed, the design is rather inspired by the rightmost toolbar buttons on Internet Explorer 9.

    I rendered the icons all in Flash, each taking about 10 to 20 minutes. Yes, Flash is my go-to vector tool, not Illustrator, but only because I'm a Flash animator and advocate on the side.

    This area can fit one more 24x24 icon, but I don't know what I'd have a fourth icon for. Suggestions? Or are these three enough?

    about 1 year ago

  2. Untitled-1 ☁ Maximlian

    I love it. Would like to beta test it when it's out!
    Feel free to send me a note .. me@maxlabs.de

    about 1 year ago

  3. Logosmall Eugene

    I wouldn't add an extra icon (assuming we already have a fourth icon to add). From the looks of it, the icons would then be spaced too close to each other and it would be easy to click the one next to it. So on a UI and UX level, I would leave it at that.

    The tabs on the left look a bit too close, maybe shift the bottom tab a few pixels down would do the trick. Also, push the top tab up to the top to align with the column view on the right :)

    about 1 year ago

  4. Boltclock_dribbble Daniel Tan

    Sure thing, Maximlian! Don't forget to follow http://twitter.com/winter_app on Twitter too :)

    Thanks for your suggestions, Eugene. I've been meaning to get the top tab to align with the content view too, but the white part of the tab control stops at the window border so it happily chops off the tab's border if I try to move it up there (if you get what I mean) :(

    about 1 year ago

  5. Logosmall Eugene

    I'm not familiar with programming for Windows, so I wouldn't know :P

    Anyway, in that case, I would do the exact opposite and move it down a bit, it gives itself and the icons at the top a bit more breathing room since it looks like a packed party up there.

    about 1 year ago

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