Redesign: Artflow Settings Menu
ArtFlow is my favorite drawing tool on Android. It’s got a lot of useful features, but the settings menu makes them hard to discover. Let’s see if we can redesign it for better usability, from this:
into this:
Low-hanging fruit
Deleting unneeded elements reduces clutter and minimizes what we need to redesign.
The chicken scratch says “be brief” and “reduce” :)
Consistent semantics
Elements that look the same should behave the same. The following three areas lack consistency:
- One of these is a description, and the other shows the setting’s current value.
- Both are blue, but the toggle is clickable while the text isn’t.
- Both are disabled.
Punctuation
Let’s add whitespace to group related options into chunks, and center the sidebar items within their container.
The Result
Before…
… and after.