In the past week, I began putting together design guidelines for the podman desktop application, so that we can maintain consistency across the entire platform. Towards the end of the week, my goal has somewhat shifted to improving the visual appeal of the screens in the application.
I used patternfly guidelines to design modal screens for the application. I also created a mock-up of how the user should have their input validated. I am currently working on how best to show the alert in dark mode. The colours I have are not working on the screen like I would like them to.
We had three user research interviews last week. In one of them, we did a bit of user research on the registry page, we learnt that the way users interact with their private registries is a lot different than we thought. In fact, the design we have now, will not work in the real world.
The issue is that users are allowed to allocate usernames and personal access tokens to any given repository in their registry. Moreso they are allowed to assign different permissions i.e. read/write to these credentials within the same repository. In other words, a user could have multiple logins for a repository within a registry. So I need to rethink my design along the lines of a keychain password manager but better :D
I wonder if there are different use cases, one of them might work for my current design. For docker hub, all I need is my username and password, and this is not complicated by the different repositories or access permissions.
Next Up
This week I will work on improving the visual appeal of the registry, I might try to name some colours as I move along, only the commonly used ones.
I will work on my Flask code review, I didn't get the chance to work on it last week. I will continue my LinkedIn learning courses!
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