Something I have seen a lot of people on this forum request for is the community concept app. I am pretty sure the software team is already hard at work on an official version. But I wanted to share my ideas and concept of the same that I have been working on for the past few days. Here is my concept for the Nothing Community app. For the first iteration (a set of four major screens) I have named them as version 1.0 - codenamed “Emma”. Further iterations will see changes/additions to these base four designs. As a result these are the foundations for this project.
The app will comprise of “Home”, “Feed”, “Notifications”, “Profile” - as main items of navigation. Care has been taken to make sure all elements of the community forum are accommodated in these four.
I am sure it will immediately jump out to all those who have used the Nothing X or the Nothing Weather app that my concept closely resembles the aesthetic of those. Especially the homepage. I have maintained the color scheme of those apps as well. The homepage contains quick links to respective tags in the forum. In my estimate these 4 tags are of the utmost importance on the forum and likely the most visited. Shout out to @Mirko_ddd - I did get inspired from his work on the homepage. He is building a very pleasing community news app. I personally wanted to make sure that the concepts of mine cover everything from forum to profile and everything else in between.
This is where we come to the newsfeed part the actual heart of the forum. Does it look familiar ? I have taken great care and noted all the little details that goes into making these type of feeds. Note how the posts that you are yet to read have a solid fill comment icon and the ones that you have already read have simply an outline. I have included all the tags in a neat horizontal row at the top.
Some people might be against the idea of dedicating an entire section of the app to notifications. I debated against it too. But the heart and soul of the community app is obviously the community that interacts with one another. So a dedicated page is not only justified but also a need. Again a lot of care has been taken to make sure everything is communicated to the user without over complexifying things.
Finally the profile page. Meant to effectively be a spot for the user to see all their posts, mentions, likes and discussions. The settings icon on top will open the profile settings. (I will elaborate on those screens in V2.0) You also have the logout button here.
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That’s all from my side for Version 1.0
Tagging some relevant community members to take a look and consider my concept - @Mattia ☀️ @RohitPakalapati @Rob ⚡️
Alright I am way past my sleep time while typing this but version 2.0 will iterate on these designs and add more meta stages to them along with integral components like the profile settings page and the forum text editor which I am currently using to type this.
Alright that’s enough I am going to catch some Z’s. Let me know your feedback down below. Enjoy!
