#mail UI

[robpegoraro]

The e-mail use case unacknowledged at Gmail: showing only unread messages

The experience of using Gmail--especially as a paying Google Workspace customer--can make me wonder how many people at Google actually use e-mail.

My version of Inbox Zero is not having no messages at all in my inbox–no mail account I open lasts in that mythical state more than its few seconds–but having no unread messages in an inbox. That is a low bar. And yet Google’s mail apps, the ones I use for not just my Gmail account but also for my work and home accounts, make that difficult to clear. The problem surfaces in the absence of a…

[eru-iru]

looking again at ryoji's mail ui and he's color coded like sees and elizabeth (his colors being grays) then the rest of the s links having one color. ofc the story important characters are color coded lmao. sees!ryoji au with his ui would have these colors hmm hmm i kinda wanna draw it

[kraniumet]

least spirited extortion campaign

[daytura]

Hi! I'm...

daytura, he/him, a 21 y.o. cognitive science major @ (UC) Santa Cruz, CA.

I am interested in...

Building a next-gen theory of cognition

Ergonomic design that puts the human back into the machine

Improving my memory, attention, and social skills

Sitcoms (1960s-1990s), creative and technical writing, casual gaming, and photography

I am not interested in...

Banal discourse, drama, and vitriol

Chronic sneering (we're all cringe here)

Absolutes, lack of nuance

You should also know...

Current self-posts are under the "morning mail" tag -- older ones are under "homegrown by day" and "homegrown by postie"

I sometimes reblog to/from my conflict-theory era @roxytonic blog, but I'm now subscribed to the principle of functional differentiation per Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory

I used to be really interested in personal knowledge management (early 2021 to late 2022), Homestuck (mid 2016 to early 2023), Adventure Time (April 2020), consumer technology (2015-2021) -- feel free to ask about these topics

I'm available on Bluesky, a federated microblogging social network

I sometimes publish longerform to my archival Substack, "Across the heliotropes"

If you're in the Santa Cruz and/or South Bay Area, feel free to reach out! I might even have some coffee in my dorm...

[skunkes]

They should make cutesy colorful wraps for everything else the way they do for like Nintendo switches

for real❗❗❗❗❗❗

[insomnianoctem]

So YouTube finally stopped working as of this morning (my third most used app alongside here and insta) because I’m iOS 15 and I don’t wanna change that so I guess as time goes on my phone is going to have less and less features and I think I’m okay with that actually.

I’ve been kinda wanting to swivel back to the “computer room” I grew up with and de-task my phone- make social media a place I have to go to instead of always have on hand.

I’d rather lose here or insta because YouTube is actually useful to me for tutorials and such but oh well.

[spartanburger]

How old are you?

I remember having to rewind VHS tapes because DVDs hadn't become mainstream yet.

[newspatron]

15 Amazing iOS 18.1 Features You Won't Believe!

What's your favorite new iOS 18.1 feature? Share your thoughts and join the discussion on our Newspatron forums!

Apple’s iOS 18.1 is here, and it’s packed with goodies! Think Magic Erasers, Siri makeovers, and email summaries that’ll make you wonder how you ever lived without them. We’re diving deep into 15 game-changing iOS 18.1 Features that’ll have you hitting that update button faster than you can say “Siri, what’s new?” Oh, and don’t forget to check out my YouTube channel for some awesome drone…

[humanmutate]

emo boy guitarist/lead singer joking abt me protecting his water and talking to me mid set hi hiiiii

[pixifycoder]

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[shepherds-of-haven]

The public demo for Shepherds of Haven (Twine version) will be available to play on 7/7!

This updated release features the game's brand-new engine, UI, music, art, maps, and more—plus new story content to explore!

If you'd like a notification and a direct link to the demo sent straight to your inbox on launch day, please feel free to sign up for the mailing list! You get a free digital download as a gift if you sign up now! :)

Get Notified on Launch Day

[kawaoneechan]

I just noticed this on my phone's mail app. UI design is my passion.

[stygiansun-totaleclipse]

Public Demo Update! 🎉 Chapter 1 Part 3

It's finally here! Adds ~61,800 words to the story plus ~6,700 words in codex character entries. Reblogs and shares very appreciated! ❤️

Play here on itch.io!

I would HIGHLY recommend you start on a new save as I have had to make some changes to variables and stats which will be detailed below, but starting from an existing save may break some things later in the game for you and you won't unlock the codex or stat pages if you don't.

In this update, you will:

Meet Lady Safina (Parim and Aurora's mother) and talk to Aurynn

Meet Lady Najaat (Nour's mother) and speak with your own mother

Play a flashback scene involving you, your mother, and Luca from your childhood

Speak with Samira

Get your food and bed stolen by your greedy little hog of a serval, Farwah

Meet the rest of MC's siblings (Aurora, Castor, and Ember) and Something or Someone Else™️ in a dream sequence

Speak with Luca in a dream

Use your divination to have a vision

Ouchies T-T

(Mostly) Accidentally snoop through Aurynn's mail with Samira

Find Aurynn in the library vault

Detailed changes below:

Changed the Straightforward stat to "Sincere"

Added "Aloof" stat

MC's personality is now divided between two types of stats: your main stat (charismatic, gentle, confrontational, dignified, imposing) and your secondary stat (manipulative, aloof, sincere)

Minor edits throughout demo and Character Creator

Added custom pronouns to Character Creator

Added cis/trans option to Character Creator (originally, this was going to be a choice introduced in chapter 2, but upon further thought I felt it would be easier to establish cis/trans early on and then in chapter 2 there will still be a scene that reflects on and clarifies mc's gender identity)

Added new music tracks

Updated UI

Added main menu

Added OpenDyslexic font to Settings

Added options to be able to rename saves to the Settings or have them autoname for you for ease of keeping track of save files

Added Stats page

Added character codex entries (codex is currently still a WIP in terms of UI and content and more entries on lore/history/magic etc will be added later)

Thank you so much for all the support you've shown the demo this last year and I am so sincerely grateful for all the kind messages people have sent! I hope you enjoy the update--I worked very hard on it! :D

The next update, Chapter 1 Part 4, will finish off chapter one.

@interact-if

[prokopetz]

A fun thing about publishing on itch.io is that it has a mechanism for constructing opt-in mailing lists of past purchasers, but no mechanism for consolidating those mailing lists, so if you want to send a notification to everyone who's opted in to receive emails from you, people who've purchased multiple titles from you will receive a number of copies of the notification equal to the number of titles purchased.

It's times like this that I'm reminded that Tumblr does not, in fact, have the dumbest possible UI. It can always get worse!

[oblivious-aro]

Yay! Everybody loves my costume ^w^

Oh boy! Yibbles! *schlooorp*

Trick or Treat!! ≽^•⩊•^≼

i just need to express how i felt this morning when i checked my asks and saw your profile picture before your username.

Anyways, here are all my webkinz Yibbles since no one else has come by :)

[hummingbird-games]

2024 in Review (Indie Games)

2023 | 2022 | 2021

Helloooo gamer friends!!!

I'm so tired.

Lol.

Anyhoo, y'all don't care about that!!! Y'all are here to see what games I played and what the heck I have to say about them! Reminders: I don't bash games I didn't like, and I try to post more in-depth thoughts and reviews and general yapping to Gem's Game Gems.

DEMOS

When Stars Collide - I am by no means a sci-fi girlie. I need a HEAPING dose of fantasy or fantasy elements to help me out. That said, y'all might remember how I went feral for Gilded Shadows, so I am locked in for this journey with WSC. It's just as mysterious and lore intense as GS, but also just as intriguing and engaging!

Love Me, Love Me Not - I looooove when a game charms me to pieces??? Our MC Addie, the introduced LIs, the story, the art??? Where do I begin?? Anyway, please check this one out y'all! I'm impatient for the full game (shocker, I know).

Threads of You: Beyond the Bay - So my thoughts and reactions for this one are on the side blog, but I really enjoyed the demo and I have eyes for Chris, Vince, and Alex hehehe.

Lost in Limbo - While I'd been keeping tabs on this game for what seems forever because of the character art that originally caught my attention, I almost didn't finish the demo because it was lowkey disturbing (I'm a wimp and not all horror is made equal). But!!! BUT!!!! I push through to the end, had a good time, noted that I need to play the full game in the daylight with the music turned down low. And I absolutely adore Ara and Xal so, so much.

A Simple Twist of Fae - Absolutely no one cares, but I read a lot of manga this year. Like, a lot-a lot. Like, ~180 books and 1/3 of that was manga. Anyhoo, When JMB announced she was cooking up this game, I was impatient to get my grubby hands on it. AND THEN I PLAYED IT AND IT WAS THE SHOJO INSPIRED GAME OF MY DREAMS?!?! Like.....I wish I could both have it on my computer and also on my bookshelf. Final build dropping when??? (Also the UI design is utterly delightful, I cry.)

The Summit Library (FULL DEMO) - The last time I reviewed this game, we got chapter 1 as a taste, and I was. Locked! In!! The full demo gives us the first 2 chapters as well as the previews for all the romance routes and while giving everyone a whirl I'm *still* undecided on who to go for in the future, I must mention this: TSL is so aspec friendly???? I do love a game with smut, don't get me wrong looks at College Craze but sometimes I have my moments of being overwhelmed/sliiiiiiightly repulsed and the variety of options you have to choose how you react and interact with the various LIs in this game is amazing. (I have more thoughts on this, so I'll try to remember to post to the sideblog, but please understand that this game is totally worth your attention and time imo!!!)

Fully Released & Played (at least 1 playthrough)

Rabbit Trail - This. Game. Is. SO. Cute. *punches the air* 😭🥹(Copy + paste of my review on the itch.io page -> This was so charming, so fluffy, so cozy, just delightful all around??? I've only reached one ending so far, but René is just the cutest protag to play as, and his interactions as he delivers his mail made me cheese so dang hard! (Also, I wanted to fight his parents for not properly appreciating their kid LOL))

Stuck by Design - I checked this game out because I was looking into games that fellow programmers had worked on, and this cozy game stumbled onto my lap. The music was perfect, the UI is beautiful and clean, and I thoroughly enjoyed the performance of the VA for the LI, Yuki.

Wake Me Up If You Need Me - I called this game older!HSDJY MC x Ryan coded and I'm still right. The voice actor MAKES this game, and the interactions the player has with Reed is so flippin' delightful?? All my love and adoration to the game developer. May they make more beautiful games.

CTRL FREAK - The developer team brought us The Faithfulness of the Universe which is a banger in its own right, and CTRL FREAK is the team's commercial, finished project that I also found delightful. The soundtrack and the animations are chef's kiss 💛

Breathless Winds - Ooo, baby, ooo. So. If there is only one game you play from this list and you have some spare cash to spend (at the time of writing, the game is on sale!!!) please, please, check this one out. It left me absolutely spellbound, both the orginal demo, and then the full game. While I didn't get to blog fully about this one, and I only tackled 2 of the 4 routes, this game is absolutely everything. This is my indie game of the year. Poppy and her journey resonated with me, and between the music and the art, everything just came together so perfectly.

Wake Up Magical Girl - Listen TF up, if miseri creates it, I'm gonna play it, idc, idc. That being said...this game had a kick to it that when I finished my first playthrough, I had to stare off into space and gather myself. It takes the concept of magical girls and heroism and gave me a teeny tiny existential crisis, but other than that, I'm fine, it's fine, play this game, thank you.

Sleeping Under Spells - God, I love me a game where I get to argue with a LI. I love it. Bonus points if it's lowkey stupid stuff we're bickering over LOL!!

Our Wonderland - Yeah, uh huh, you thought you'd escape me talking about this game this year, didn't yah???? Too bad. The fifth and final arc dropped this year and I played it and I cried and felt for the briefest moments that life was okay. To say something different than my review of last year, I love that this seems to be the game that helps fellow ace devs find and flock to each other, I'm not kidding 🤣 so thank you Carrot for helping us fellow aspec peeps feel seen and validated and understood!

I Watched a Full Game Playthrough and Highly Recommend

Replay Boys - Okay so technically at the time of posting, there's still one more video I'm waiting to watch (Naja of BlerdyOtome uploaded her stream to YouTube) but my Godddddd. I've had my eye on this game for FOREVER but I was lowkey waiting for it to move to itch.io (I'm still a lowkey Steam hater 🥹) anyhoo, watching this absolutely wild game made me go ahead and buy a copy for myself to replay at a later time, but it's just great. The summary only scratches this surface of what the game entails 🤣

Gemi’s Gushies

(a list within a list of games that have devs trucking along in the background and I want to spotlight for y’all)

Save the Villainess - Life got away with me and unfortunately I never finished my play of the demo BUT what I have played was fun and I hope to return to this in the new year!

Woman of Xal 2 - Plot Twist Studios is on that Sequel Train with the next installment of WoX!!! Which I'm VERY excited for!!! I've unfortunately only completed one playthrough of this game, but the first game is definitely a masterclass in replayability, and I hope next year I'll be able to do a second playthough as I wait for game 2's Kickstarter!

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And that's 2024! Any shared favorites?

- Gemini 🫶🏾