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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Matthew Skiles
Just designing what I wish Skype looked like :)
Inspired by Filipe Storarri's IM App.
Check out the Fullsize
6 months ago
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Mason Yarnell
Nicely polished, Matthew.
6 months ago
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Matthew Skiles
Thanks dude :)
6 months ago
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Milos Milikic
Looking nice! I would try with some backgrounds on CLIENTS/FRIENDS/CHATS lines.
6 months ago
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Yassine Bentaieb
You have awesome friends.
6 months ago
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Matthew Skiles
@Milos - I'm not quite sure what you mean?
6 months ago
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Jason Wu
Clean. Looking good!
6 months 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.
6 months ago
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Stuart Regan
Can you introduce me to Mila Kunis, please? K-thx-bye.
6 months ago
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Matthew Skiles
@Stuart - Sure, not a problem at all. How's Tuesday work for you ;)
6 months ago
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Murat Mutlu
You know that Skype have a mac redesign competition where they give you the css template to modify for the chat....MAKE THIS!
6 months ago
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Murat Mutlu
Here's the link http://macthemes.skype.com/start
6 months ago
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Umar Irshad
Ohh sexy :D
6 months ago
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Matthew Skiles
@Murat - That competition ended way back in July. I don't know why the page is still around.
6 months ago
Great improvement! Dig this!!
6 months ago
Very nice.
6 months ago
That's oh so sweet, man!
6 months ago
Simple & clean
6 months ago
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Milos Milikic
@Matthew I meant something like this
6 months ago
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by Daryl Ginn
I felt like making something.
Full view: http://bit.ly/tdMpqD (attachment)
6 months ago
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Jordan Borth
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!
6 months ago
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ludwiczakpawel
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?
6 months ago
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Rod Lalama
Really love this design.
6 months ago
So good. To round the avatars is a very good idea.
6 months ago
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Glenn Van Bogaert
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 ;-)
6 months ago