UI proposal for the website

[ghost]

Hey guys,

I love apertium and wanted to contribute with my own work, as I am not a programmer, but a UX/UI designer. So I played a little with figma and created a screen for the website. The current one looks a bit outdated, it could be using a fresh paint. As I wasn't quite sure, how to bring this to you, I thought, I just open an Issue here. If that's not the way you want, just let me know! :)

So, here is my proposal:

I put in the most important features and my design approach is "simple, modern and useful". I also created (just quickly) a new logo, which shows a speech bubble as symbol for languages and the "a" of the word apertium inside of it. The color blue is the most accessible for color-blind people, so I used it on the page.

Please share your opinion on the design, I'd love to hear your feedback and improvements.

Thank you very much and regards from Austria!

[ftyers]

It would be cool to see a version in RTL too!

[ghost]

@ftyers RTL = Ready to launch?

[ftyers]

Right to left, like Arabic or Hebrew :)

[ghost]

Not at all correct, but I hope you get the idea :)

[jonorthwash]

I emphatically vote "no flags for languages."

Also, the Apertium logo itself may be out of date, but changing that affects more than just the website, so updating that would be a separate issue. Perhaps open that one against the organisation repo?

[jonorthwash]

How does this layout adapt for mobile?

[unhammer]

was about to say "we should register noflagsforlanguages.com" but http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/ =P

[jonorthwash]

Someone used the flags of the UK and France in an MT presentation recently and I assumed (incorrectly apparently) that they were talking about Cornish-Breton MT.

[rabbabansh]

Is this issue still available to work on? I am interested in creating a UI for Apertium with mobile views, where languages aren't denoted with flags. Cheers!

[unhammer]

feel free :)