Design Takes Time

If you want to find a good design—be that the design of a house or an essay, a career or a marriage—what you want is some process that allows you to extract information from the context, and bake it into the form. That is what unfolding is.

I also spent time aligning labels, icons, and buttons, both vertically and horizontally in the sidebar and tabs. It was definitely a challenge given the amount of UI elements we have on this tiny surface. This part of the redesign isn’t something you’ll immediately see but rather something that you’ll feel after a few minutes of using the app.

Design is about empathy, accessibility, communication of ideas, and improving lives, regardless of context. Design trends come and go, so don't get caught up in the hype and remember that the way a product or service is used today may be entirely different in five or ten years.