🌟 SW UI / UX Suggestions 📥

A group specifically for SimilarWorlds [b]"[u]User Interface[/u]" & "[u]User Experience[/u]"[/b] design Suggestions [u]Only[/u].

[i]You can make suggestions relating to the site's:[/i]
[b]● Layout/ Navigation
● Theme / Colors
● Gifts / Avatars
● Reactions / Attributes / Emoji
● Fonts / Icons / Images
● Usability Issues / Interface Bugs[/b]

👍

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

NerdyPotato · M

Could we get an update of the emoji system? I can't find 🥲 (Smiling Face with Tear) in the selection menu for example. It is converted to an image when inserted from my phone keyboard or copied from the web, so it seems the replacement code is out of sync with the selection menu, unless I'm overlooking it in there. And that brings me to another suggestion: is it possible to implement a search function into the emoji selection menu?

NerdyPotato · M

Perhaps a less impactful addition: people tend to interpret emojis in different ways, but their usage is fairly well defined on https://emojipedia.org for example. You could be a trendsetter by including that somehow. (If this suggestion is too much but you would consider a search function, the descriptive names on that website alone are surely helpful for that.)

The implementation is a bit difficult with so many devices able to access SW. A mouse-over/tooltip would be a good way on computers, but that's not supported by phones. There it could be replaced by a click/tap event in posts, but that's already used for insertion in the selection menu and I wouldn't be in favor of replacing that with a popup showing the description and button requiring an additional click to actually insert it. Showing the description in posts on all devices and only on computers in the selection menu would still be a huge step up from literally every other platform though.