I wish Skype looked like this. The thing that bothers me the most about the current version is that the text chat is under the video, rather than beside it. You either have a tiny video and a decent-sized chat, or one line of chat and a decent-sized video.
I am currently mocking something like this up for my vision of iMessage for Mac!
I was envisioning it built into finder. No apps to download, or services to sign-up for, just use your Apple ID. Exact feature set as iMessage currently has.
Very nice & clean ui! Really like it... I'm wondering - have you tried getting rid of user names in chat window? I mean that you probably know all of your contact so you're probably able to recognize them with avatar or even with two messages from chat history, aren't you? You could add some dark tooltip with user name after hovering the avatar for example... Another idea is to remove timestamp and to display it only after hovering the message (some adium styles have it). With these two updates you could have even cleaner messages area... What do you think?
This is really looking awesome Matthew. I really hope that Skype bumps on this design and starts using it right away with your permission of course ;-) Do you mind sharing that desktop background? It looks awesome.
@ludwiczakpawel That's a good idea if your friends have avatars set. But what if they haven't? I wouldn't be able to recognize them without avatar ;-)
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Just designing what I wish Skype looked like :)
Inspired by Filipe Storarri's IM App.
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over 1 year ago
Nicely polished, Matthew.
over 1 year ago
Thanks dude :)
over 1 year ago
Looking nice! I would try with some backgrounds on CLIENTS/FRIENDS/CHATS lines.
over 1 year ago
You have awesome friends.
over 1 year ago
@Milos - I'm not quite sure what you mean?
over 1 year ago
Clean. Looking good!
over 1 year ago
I wish Skype looked like this. The thing that bothers me the most about the current version is that the text chat is under the video, rather than beside it. You either have a tiny video and a decent-sized chat, or one line of chat and a decent-sized video.
over 1 year ago
Can you introduce me to Mila Kunis, please? K-thx-bye.
over 1 year ago
@Stuart - Sure, not a problem at all. How's Tuesday work for you ;)
over 1 year ago
You know that Skype have a mac redesign competition where they give you the css template to modify for the chat....MAKE THIS!
over 1 year ago
Here's the link http://macthemes.skype.com/start
over 1 year ago
Ohh sexy :D
over 1 year ago
@Murat - That competition ended way back in July. I don't know why the page is still around.
over 1 year ago
Great improvement! Dig this!!
over 1 year ago
Very nice.
over 1 year ago
That's oh so sweet, man!
over 1 year ago
Simple & clean
over 1 year ago
@Matthew I meant something like this
over 1 year ago
Rebound
Skype
by Daryl Ginn
I felt like making something.
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over 1 year ago
I am currently mocking something like this up for my vision of iMessage for Mac!
I was envisioning it built into finder. No apps to download, or services to sign-up for, just use your Apple ID. Exact feature set as iMessage currently has.
Very nice execution!
over 1 year ago
Very nice & clean ui! Really like it... I'm wondering - have you tried getting rid of user names in chat window? I mean that you probably know all of your contact so you're probably able to recognize them with avatar or even with two messages from chat history, aren't you? You could add some dark tooltip with user name after hovering the avatar for example... Another idea is to remove timestamp and to display it only after hovering the message (some adium styles have it). With these two updates you could have even cleaner messages area... What do you think?
over 1 year ago
Really love this design.
over 1 year ago
So good. To round the avatars is a very good idea.
over 1 year ago
This is really looking awesome Matthew. I really hope that Skype bumps on this design and starts using it right away with your permission of course ;-) Do you mind sharing that desktop background? It looks awesome.
@ludwiczakpawel That's a good idea if your friends have avatars set. But what if they haven't? I wouldn't be able to recognize them without avatar ;-)
over 1 year ago