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Design language
This discussion was created from comments split from: Electron.
mverde
1Password Team
1Password TeamThere's a lot of feedback to cover in this thread, so I'll do my best to address each and every piece. In particular, I'd love to dive deeper into the feedback on the design language, as that's one of the reasons that we decided to provide early access releases for 1Password 8. Before I do though, I want to speak to the concern about Electron influencing the design:
Whether the UI was built in Electron or SwiftUI it would look the same.
This… just isn't true. With SwiftUI, you get native macOS controls, and with Electron, you don't.
@toph you are correct that we don't get native macOS controls through Electron. I think 1P_Ben was referring more to the design language that we are employing. The design language itself would have been the same, regardless of what toolkit we were building the UI with. In other words, the amount of whitespace used and whether the preference pane is displayed as a separate window or a modal popover, these are not products of our choice to use Electron, but rather design-level decisions. Having you try these things out and provide feedback on whether they support you well in your daily use of 1Password 8 is of tremendous value to us!
@gothmog I will certainly share your feedback on the additional whitespace and the choice not to use dividers in the item list with our design team. And we are currently working on expanding the support for keyboard shortcuts, so you can expect that to get better with each update throughout early access.
@topher1078 strictly speaking, there's nothing preventing us from opening preferences in a separate window. We tilted towards displaying them in a modal popover because it seemed to fit well with a modal paradigm. For example, I'm either changing the settings or using the rest of the app, but never both simultaneously. Is there a use-case that you have that would be better addressed by having them in a separate window?
I hope that all of you will continue to use 1Password 8 and provide us with this kind of important feedback during early access!
