TLDR: I’m making another web operating system in GDevelop, and I want help from non-designers to come up with a home screen layout, as the perspective of someone who doesn’t do design as a profession or hobby could have even more value and creativity to bring. Some things are just too cliche, like a grid of apps.
Hello everyone, i’ve been working on…probably my 13th attempt at creating a web operating system in GDevelop. It might sound crazy to do something like that, but if you’ve been interested in operating system history and computers, you’ve probably wanted to do something like that. As a designer and programmer that studies design history, of course i’ve always wanted to as well. But it being made with web technologies is why it might be possible for me to do it, and is why i’ve been chasing it all these years. It won’t be dead weight either, it’s actually quite important, especially it’s components. I recently became aware that other people genuinely do want a better way to create UI in GDevelop, and thats obviously part of an operating system, is it’s UI. Furthermore, the components of the operating system could be turned into extensions that can be used in other projects, like the UI, networking, rendering, more hardware information, etc.
So, enough blabbering. Obviously as a designer, I’ve mostly been focused on design and only the past couple years or so have I realized just how much planning and programming even something barely resembling an operating system takes. But something else I realized is that sometimes non-designers are actually better than actual designers. They have a perspective a little hard to replicate, because it’s the perspective of a user, someone who is not constantly following trends, and just isn’t something they focus on.
I want your guys help to create design sketches for how the home screen could work, straying away from the usual grid of apps.
Remember, you’re asking amateurs to re-design something that is the way it is because it works. If I was trying to do something different, the first thing I can think of is to use spinning dials instead of swiping between screens. But that’s all I have in my head, whether it would be annoying or amazing, I have no idea.
Hi - I’m finding it difficult to determine what the question is here. To design a new operating system concept? The user base here has a wide range of ages and nationalities, cultural backgrounds etc and so you’re going to get a mixed bag of responses
As a middle aged, uk citizen - I would personally like it to look like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (80s version) - but again this is probably rather unhelpful and as a graphic designer - this font will probably make you fell slightly nauseous.
I like that font, it’s pretty neat and reminiscent of news media between the 1970s-1990s
Something similar (from what I remember) called the Heaven’s Gate cult used a somewhat similar font for their website
i dont see why it would make me nauseous. and the colors are just like another operating system i had made. but this doesnt explain how itd work, which i think was my question.
graphic designers are very sensitive when it comes to fonts …they all look very similar to me (apart from dingbats) - I had a friend who was a graphic designer and some fonts turned his stomach.
Its a nice design - is this for a touch screen devices?
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy functioned a bit like a blackberry but with information acquired by thousands of intergalactic journalists reporting back on the attractions and perils of every planet in the galaxy. So I think one scene loading numbered external layouts would do it.
Yes, GMS was supposed to run on a specialized device. pretty much imagine a tablet but on your arm (your arm, not ARM64, though yes it is an arm processor). i made a thread about it that explains it in depth.
