{"id":23913,"date":"2019-04-09T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenkit.com\/?p=23913"},"modified":"2023-02-03T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:03:25","slug":"zenkit-design-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenkit.com\/en\/blog\/zenkit-design-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing a Brand New Zenkit Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Introducing<\/p>\n

We’ve been pretty quiet on here recently, and for good reason – our dev team have been hard at work redesigning the entire app from the ground up! Zenkit’s new design is cleaner, more modern, easier to understand, and way more mobile-friendly.<\/p>\n

We loved our old design, but it lacked a coherent structure, having been built upon bit by bit over the years. Each new menu was written separately, every new feature was designed on its own, and the app wasn’t that fun to use on mobile devices. We decided to unify the whole design language of the app while improving mobile usability:<\/p>\n

“We needed a flexible solution for dialogues, that would work on desktop, tablet, and mobile. The framework we came up with allows us to display dialogues in multiple modes (dropdown, modal, inline) and the mode can vary between devices. Even better, dialogues can be stacked on top of each other or reused separately in different contexts.<\/em><\/p>\n

There simply wasn’t a framework or library out there that was capable of doing this on the web, so we built one ourselves.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesse, CTO<\/p>\n

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So what’s new? Well, everything, and yet, not all that much! This is still the Zenkit you know and love, and most things are still where they used to be, just slicker and with way cooler animations. The first thing you’ll notice is the way items, menus, confirmation dialogues, and all manner of text entry points all adhere to the same design rules now. But we can be a bit more specific than that…<\/p>\n

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Mobile Updates<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An all-round better UI & UX<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Since the user interface and user experience on mobile devices (particularly iPads and other tablet devices) were what initially encouraged us to give Zenkit a design update in the first place, it’s only fitting that we start by highlighting the new features we’ve added to the mobile apps.<\/p>\n

The team worked hard to ensure that the mobile apps looked and behaved as you would expect from a native app. Buttons are bigger, the text is better-spaced, the navigation animations are much clearer, and menus are easier to find. Binary actions such as subscribing to or downloading a collection, toggling default settings in a field, or managing notification settings are now controlled using simple toggles. Common mobile behaviours such as swiping to perform certain activities are enabled, and it’s now easier to share from other apps directly into Zenkit. The apps will be available in the next couple of days. So let’s get down to the details:<\/p>\n

Swipe gestures on mobile<\/strong><\/h3>\n

iOS users rejoice! The swipe gestures you know and love are now a part of Zenkit, too! (And, of course, they’re also available for Android users ;)) There are a few places where swiping comes into play:<\/p>\n