For the last couple weeks we've been working pretty hard to improve the UI & UX on DEV. Our efforts so far were focused around the home page, but mostly under the hood. There's a lot of spaghetti in the frontend codebase and there were temporary solutions that were never replaced with more sustainable ones. Hence, the work that we’re doing right now is not really visible.

But some of it is.

Shipping Home Page Cleanups

Paweł Ludwiczak for The DEV Team ・ Feb 19 '20

#design #meta #ux #changelog

First of all, thank you for feedback! We really appreciate it and you helped us spot and fix many bugs. 🙌

I mentioned a couple times that what we’ve shipped so far is just a step towards something bigger. It's still far from being ideal but we’ve had to make some changes here and there to make it easier in future to implement new things. This is an ongoing process and will take time.

Today I'd love to show you a sneak peek of where we want to be in some time. Again: it's not ideal, it's not finished and it keeps evolving (like literally every day :)). But I still think it's worth sharing with a broader audience!

From yours, the community perspective, it should be more readable, easier to navigate and more fun to use. From our perspective this will be a step towards not only a more maintainable design system but also a North Star for UI improvements in other areas and views.