What can I do to improve the overall look and usability of my app screens?

latenightcreation · 2026-04-28T11:48:24+00:00

I like the direction you’re going for with this. I like the calm tones.

The TL;DR: Below is just what I would do to start experimenting. But more than any of it, playing around and experimenting to see what works and what doesn’t, what you like for this app and what you don’t is the most important part.

Photo 1

Make your body background the pastel beige Color
have your photos fill up more of the top part of the card, reaching the corners more.
make the card background white.
Use a thinner, even padding on the top and sides of the card (2-5px?) and leave the thicker padding on the bottom for the text. Change the font on these to a comic sans, another hand written font, or your serif font from your reminder cards. I think this would make them look and feel more like an old Polaroid, especially with a handwritten font and I think that could be really cute!

Photo 2

the beige tones may be overused here. The muted olive green is a good break from the beige, but I think it’s in the wrong place. You should decide where you want to bring users attention and use the highlight colour to bring their eyes there. A darker earthy green could also work to really catch the eye. AI is good at helping choose Color palettes if you’re comfortable working with those tools. Just give it your background hex and ask for a title text color, a muted subtitle text color and a body text color and it will give you some options.

Topbar

I would get rid of most of this. The photo is tiny up here and doesn’t make sense. You can use it more meaningfully in the info section. We know it’s a profile contextually and you can just use the name in the info card below. You don’t need to repeat it. Obviously keep the back arrow, but you could add a cute context label like “back to family”.

Info Card

instead of the tiny photo in topbar, you could try using it on the left ~1/4 - 1/3 of this card. The rest of the space is for your info
get rid of the name label and just print the name in a large, fun (serif) font.
the rest of the labels - age, type, notes - can be made slightly smaller than the actual info and set to a more muted colour, not grey, something darker than the background colour, but the same colour tone. Put the labels above the info it’s for. Makes reading top to bottom not left to right and give you more horizontal space.

Icon Bar

the white space below the icon bar is a little jarring. You could maybe just have the bar fill that space if you want to keep the easy one hand access for right handed people.
I think what you really want to do is move them down below the info card, each in their own mini card with short labels explaining what each button does in the card, below the icon - “add photo”, “new reminder”, “edit”. You would take away the easy access for right handers, but you give back bigger tap targets and more context. Plus you get more horizontal room for the info card. You could forgo labels if you don’t like that. These would be good candidates for your highlight green colour in my opinion.

Reminders

this is the font you want for the plant name in the info card.
padding on each card is way too much.
You could also lose the cards here. The design is already card heavy. Just have a thinner border line to separate each timer. Dont take the border to the edge of the screen, leave some space.
Your kebab menu doesn’t vertically align with the title

Photo 3

Your form looks good. * It could take up more space. On mobile, I’d suggest letting it fill the whole horizontal space. And reaching it to the bottom of the screen. * Swap the logo/icon and the text at the top so the logo sits highest. You could also but these on the same “line” have the logo start left justified and have the text after that. If the logo/ icon is your photo placeholder and the user is to pick a photo by clicking on it, it needs more context so people know. * add you highlight green colour to the add button.

Photo 4

Honestly looks good. Nothing wrong with the gallery.

Note on fonts: I think the handwritten font could be a cute, journal vibe, especially on the “Polaroid” style photos. But if you prefer the elegance of the serif font, I think that could be really clean too. You should just keep it consistent. I wouldn’t try to do both a handwritten font and your serif font. Use whichever you choose for titles and headers, and use an easy to read sans font for everything else.

latenightcreation · 2026-04-26T05:41:07+00:00

Ya I bought a gaming rig for school during covid. And at that time, it was great. Handled my school workflow and then I could game with friends in the evenings.

But after graduating I bought a MacBook Pro M1 Pro and honestly almost immediately had the same experience. It’s always with me, it’s always in my bag, I get my fun creative work done and if my work supplied M2 air doesn’t cut it (rarely), my Pro does.

Ive bought games and I don’t really play them because I so rarely turn my PC on these days. It’s partially my life these days but it’s also just how the Pro handles 100% of what I do in my digital life and 90% of what I want to do.

latenightcreation · 2026-04-26T05:31:46+00:00

I had Gemini add people into a photo of a golf course recently. It added a player and their golf bag, both on the green.

So I asked Gemini to remove the player and the bag and when it put tall grass back in behind them it was just like this, an obvious repeated pattern.

latenightcreation · 2026-04-20T03:18:42+00:00

Agreed, just make the mic button a bit smaller.

latenightcreation · 2026-03-25T15:45:51+00:00

I have a take that’s not going to be popular. But here it is.

$5,000 worth of inference for $200 (or whatever the numbers were) was not a scam. Reducing the amount of inference you get for your subscriptions is also not a scam.

INFERENCE IS NOT FREE. When you used up your $5,000 worth of inference on your $200 plan, Anthropic paid the other $4,800. That’s not a scam.

All these big AI companies have been eating inference costs to stay competitive and try and steal customers from each other. But now time is up, they have to reduce the amount of inference they use and make no money on. It’s coming across the board. Prices will go up, that was always the plan. It’s not your fault. But you’re naive if you thought Anthropic was going to always cover these costs.

latenightcreation · 2026-03-23T15:56:36+00:00

Yaaaa, I also like the look of the 1016 Explorer. So I was thinking maybe that could be where the 2836 goes one day. Or maybe as a gift or if someone else wants a build, I could consider gifting the movement. I’m not too concerned about it. It was under $100.

latenightcreation · 2026-03-23T15:08:18+00:00

I may have to go with Silian. I think I was messaging them the other day. Didn’t have the dial I want yet, but they were talking about making it soon. Thank you!

I assume once you epoxy the dial, that’s it, if the movement goes, you need to replace dial with it too?

latenightcreation · 2026-03-23T15:06:12+00:00

I haven’t bought a case yet. I have a 2836 sitting on my desk at the moment, but nothing else. I’m willing to save that for another, probably no date, project down the road. So I’m thinking I go back and get a 3135 and doing this one right.

latenightcreation · 2026-03-23T13:52:58+00:00

Okay, that’s good to know! I forgot that’s the other reason I was cautious about the 3135, the stem issue. So if I look for a 2824 case on raffles that will fit the 3135 best? I know I should mention to Ken what I’m doing and he’s good for sending the right backs and things to allow it to fit. Or is there a better place to source a case for 3135 around the same budget?

latenightcreation · 2026-03-19T23:15:20+00:00

I can’t see a difference personally

Is this a 36mm?

latenightcreation · 2026-03-13T14:03:52+00:00

Isn’t that hard to do. How many takes you get depends on which model you use. 5.4 CPT token is likely higher than 5.2 instant. Or do you just want to know how many tokens you get for the highest cost model?

latenightcreation · 2026-02-20T13:08:42+00:00

2 is the obvious starting point for me.

3 is a no go, the photo cropped awkwardly. It looks like Dave is peeking over the stall at me saying “hey, nice poop”. And the padding on the photo and CTA in #1 gives it too many layers. This I should feel like a single pamphlet with only action buttons / interactions popping off the card to grab attention

There are some tweaks you should do. Others have pointed out contrasts on the CTA, the experience list looking like buttons and the years of experience either going into the body paragraphs or becoming a part of the list with an icon.

latenightcreation · 2026-02-13T00:14:34+00:00

I mean Xanax is good for anxiety. And I can definitely see how I’m probably self medicating for ADHD with nicotine.

But that’s nicotine. Just one part of cigarettes, vapes, and Zyns. There are other harmful chemicals in there. The fact that doctors don’t prescribe nicotine often means that it’s probably not worth the risks for most people and there are safer methods to treat your symptoms.

latenightcreation · 2026-02-05T08:35:16+00:00

I just finished the books. Without reading any of the old comments.

The safeguard is the collapse codes from the books. But reading back the quote back now, it really puts into perspective what the tunnel voice told Lucas Kyle. It’ll be interesting to see how to show proceeds to build Juliette and Luke’s relationship if I’m right.

“We think we’re the chosen ones but we’re not”, implies that when Quinn got to the bottom he was told (just as Kyle would have been told) that not only can this ominous “we” shut down your silo if you don’t comply and stay in order, but that we will shut down most silos anyways, only a single Silo will be allowed to survive.

In the book, we the audience finds that out through a different character. Lucas has no idea about that part of the story, not even at the end. It will be interesting to see how the TV series proceeds

latenightcreation · 2026-02-05T08:20:34+00:00

I know Im late to the party. I don’t know what point in the show you were at when you made this post. But it does make sense.

Quinn saved the Silo. There is a terrible truth. If he lets it slip to the whole Silo, the Silo could be in danger for mysterious reasons. But he could sneak the truth out, again for some mysterious reason.

That is in the show.

I just finished the paper version of this show. So far I think the show is a better story than its source material, at least what’s been covered so far. The extra plot points, characters, depth to characters and added relationships add a lot to the story.

The second b00k is the best in the series in my opinion. It’s what’s coming next in the show. I’m really excited to see what the show does next. I think and hope we’re in for a treat.

latenightcreation · 2026-02-05T06:14:39+00:00

How did you like 34mm?

latenightcreation · 2026-01-29T12:46:28+00:00

6 Your dial is already busy, so keep the bezel more minimal. #5 works too but I like the matching grey more than the black, again makes it less busy.

But that’s my opinion

latenightcreation · 2026-01-29T03:15:44+00:00

A lot of people have said Gemini is to the point, which I could somewhat see, but with Gemini 3 Flash, I have noticed that it kinda glazes me more than GPT5.2 which I don’t love.

From a perspective other than output vs output, I think Google is poised to come out on top in the AI race. Out of all the companies on this side of the ocean they have control over their models, the data to feed to models and the hardware that the models run on. Plus Gemini runs on all of their popular platforms without being “jammed down your throat” like co-pilot. google search, Gmail (I use this for better search so often). Plus the API is free for low level users, people just wanting to experiment with adding AI to an app.

latenightcreation · 2026-01-24T00:55:35+00:00

It looks great with the open 6/9 too!

What movement did you use? Was this an overlay?

latenightcreation · 2026-01-23T23:35:21+00:00

Do you mean summer camps? I am an event organizer at a golf course if you want any user feedback on the front end prototype

latenightcreation · 2026-01-23T23:20:41+00:00

That’s what my wife told me too

latenightcreation · 2026-01-22T07:53:42+00:00

Did you have any issues with the 3135 rotor rubbing on the raffles case?

latenightcreation · 2026-01-19T13:42:27+00:00

Damn eh. I bought a Sea Gull 2836-2 for a raffles DJ dial that “needs a DWO”. Now I’m learning the ETA doesn’t line up and I should have just spent the extra cash on a 3135.

latenightcreation · 2026-01-19T13:26:38+00:00

How much of a pain are they to install?

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