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kind of a manifesto for gtx0s design philosophy

Posted October 6, 2015 by Xhin

Basically, I seek to achieve two things with GTX0's design:

  • It needs to look good on a large scale.

  • It needs to be very personalized

    Note the word "personalized" -- this implies a kind of organic customization. Instead of being able to change *everything* you can change groups of things that make sense together. If you go to pick a pair of shoes, you might pick hiking or athletic or dress shoes, not some crazy hybrid of custom tongues, laces, and heels.

    Personalization implies -- there are a variety of hiking boots available. Perhaps the customization runs deeper than with most shoe stores and you can find even a whole palette that suits you.

    This is what I aim to achieve with GTX0's design. How I plan to do this (and the MyCard feature has really hammered this out):

  • Have a good selection of well-designed templates (Add more as needed / inspiration strikes)

  • Allow you to customize pieces of them

  • Maybe adjust some settings depending on what it is -- adding a little more personalization to a design.

  • For things that are pretty variable, get them to flow according to set rules. A good example: The text here:



    This is the design philosophy behind GTX0 as a whole, but here are some more specific areas where this will happen:

  • The top header

  • MyCards (obviously)

  • Forum headers / indexes

  • User profiles

  • Post types

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