It would be very cool imo to have similar aesthetic guidelines for all these fronts. Material design is the stardard in this era but Fediverse has the occasion to be more attractive with something new and more organized.
It would be very cool imo to have similar aesthetic guidelines for all these fronts. Material design is the stardard in this era but Fediverse has the occasion to be more attractive with something new and more organized.
I don’t understand what the benefit of that is supposed to be. You could argue that it might make it easier for users to navigate the platforms. But if a user is getting confused that seems more of an UI than design issue and different platforms will naturally have different needs in that regard anyways.
Other than that, I think the strength of federated services lies in their diversity and due to the open source, federated nature of most services, anyone is free to create their own apps/instances with unique designs anyways, so that seems like a losing battle from the get go.
The benefit would be that if someone knows how to use Fediverse-Thing “X” they’d have a headstart in learning how to use “Y” and “Z” as well, because they would all look/behave similarly. It’s a fairly standard UI/UX idea. See, for example, some “usability rules” at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch01s03.html (esp. Rule of Bliss and Rule of Least Surprise).