Sailfish OS design needs a refresh

Providing feedback on something, without clear examples does not help to change things.

What I notice in the UI for SailfishOS is, that there are inconstencies in the GUI introduced by co-authoring with Aurora. The message received banner comes across as not in line with the overall philosophy with the bubble approach. The answering call GUI is changed and not following same paradigm of Sailfish OS design and I made a request for reverting that or at least make it optional.

There are inconsistencies in the GUI introduced over the course of 13 years of development, which don’t seem to adhere to the Sailfish OS design philosophy. If Jolla had the man-power to make things consistent throughout with swipe and pull actions that would be helpful. In some pages I have a “light bubble” at the top for navigation and swipe does not appear to work. In others I can only swipe.

Never the less the overall look and feel seems fine with me. Though there used to be a GUI design guideline, which appears to be sidelined.

@ApB it really would help the conversation if you can produce concrete examples in what you would like to see changed. What are your grievances. No generics, specific Jolla (or community) actionable items.

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