Here’s a little announcement for what's to come regarding Decred's design development. Our goal was to create an engaging and recognisable identity and design direction to represent Decred across different platforms and contexts. We’ve worked out a common vision and a set of principles with Decred core team to bring longevity, togetherness, and representation for it both as a cryptocurrency and as a project in any environment. The estimated launch for the new visual identity and design direction is February 2017. What to expect: - The new visual identity and design system - New Decred main site - New designs for the key platforms (docs, forum, social media, webwallet, decrediton, mainnet etc) - Visual communication toolkit (graphical assets, icons, illustrations, typography, useful guides etc) It is needed to make it easier to tell about Decred. For this we’ve created the visual communication toolkit. Anyone who wishes to represent Decred can use it. It contains a set of simple + practical tools and guides for different contexts – e.g. for creating marketing materials, information/communication design or application design. The main site and key platforms received a design overhaul for a consistent and professional representation of Decred. The wider goal is the create international awareness and legitimacy. For new (and old) users the goal is to help with the on-boarding process, building understanding of Decred as well improving the general experience. If anyone plans or is currently creating new graphical content, I recommend not to use any pre-released, copied or re-drawn logos and symbols you might have already seen. Instead use “Decred" logotype (without symbol) or “DCR" in a simple, clean and bold textual form (e.g. typeface: Montserrat Bold) until the appropriate files and the toolkit is released. This will help avoid wrong first impressions and any possible confusion. Thank you!
Wow, awesome news! It may take some time to get used to, but I definitely like the design. Words that pop up in my head: clean, fresh, playful, elegance, style, integrating, outgoing, ... In my opinion it will also appeal to the new and upcoming generation of cryptocurrency users (smartphone kids). This may prove very important: an intuitive user experience is essential for adoption. Great job, just like @Daniel I'm looking forward to the launch. EDIT: will there also be a dark theme available? That is one of the things I love the most about the current design... very pleasant to read at night!
I agree with @Noah there, I'm a big fan of at least the availability of dark themes instead of the white background ones. Dark mode being one of the things I miss most about xombrero
From everything I've seen so far, the results are very exciting. Especially when it comes to implementing a consistent front-end experience across our various GUIs. Whether a user is using Paymetheus, decrediton, or Copay they will hopefully be able to intuitively understand how things work due to the design decisions being made
Yes there's both light and dark colour schemes in the identity system. As well a gradation of active to passive schemes (e.g. "juicier" approaches for marketing materials, calmer and toned down for contexts with bigger data like mainnet)
Hello! I'm doing a pre-release of the new identity, the visual toolkit and assets. The new identity and the design system will go officially live with the 0.8 launch. The highlights will be Decrediton and new decred.org main site. Some of the other platforms may come live with a short delay. I will also release a case study alongside the launch. It will cover the work that's been done the past months to provide deeper insights and answer questions. The battle plan is to launch new Decred logo and the symbol in sync on the same day with 0.8 launch. (Thursday) This package is for anyone who promotes Decred. Giving a bit of time to prepare the stuff, get it out there and get it ready to be launched. I hope everyone who manages any social media pages and got contacts with different exchanges and publications, etc (really wherever you notice the old Decred symbol in use) can try to pitch in and coordinate this identity launch. Ideally it should get updated everywhere on the same time. Imagine it like water that's been building up behind a dam for many months and now its time to let it all loose! So if You see the old Decred logo anywhere, get it changed! Download: - Identity and visual toolkit (pdf): http://www.eeter.co/Decred-VisualToolkit-060217.pdf - Logo package (ai, svg, png, pdf): http://www.eeter.co/Decred-LogoPackage.zip - Social media assets, illustration sets, icons, etc: http://www.eeter.co/Decred-GraphicAssets.zip
As promised with 0.8, the new designs started going live with the highlight of www.decred.org I've included a case study regarding the work that has been made: https://medium.com/eeter/decred-dev...or-a-digital-currency-17df76ab67c8#.vw8x1slhj Work continues on, as platforms and materials are being updated. Anyone can also pitch in by helping to update the logo and symbol launch online. If you notice the old logo in use outside the official platforms, you can help by referring the user/host to the correct logos at http://decred.org/brand/ For any feedback, questions and requests please leave them at this board https://forum.decred.org/forums/darkroom/ (will be adding the materials there shortly as well) Thanks!
It is like the different aspects of any type of design. For instance, if I am looking for the opportunity to choose the best interior design\, I will be happy to use this. Because it is great to know the aspects connected to the mentioned point.