Part of an ongoing series, created as a public design review. You can see previous installments here.

The last few weeks have been hard. The company that I work for as my day job has downsized. I, thankfully, was spared the axe but I feel for my comrades in the trenches as they endure this trying time. I’m grateful that I get to continue to work on Scatter in my free time. It is a pleasure and a privilege.

With a little help from my friends

So, since my last article I have been quietly busy. Most of my focus the last ten days has been on the redesign of Scatter’s desktop application. Besides that, we also launched a support site for Scatter, which I think will help alleviate some of the basic confusion about how to use the application until we can update the UI to something more friendly. More and more I am of the mind that a ‘user experience’ extends far beyond the application itself and into support and customer experience.

Since a large portion of our users are non-English speakers, I’ve gone out of my way to make sure that the support site is translated to Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. The translations aren’t perfect, but they are absolutely better than nothing.

If you see something egregiously wrong with the translations, please make sure to contact me and let me know so that I can update them!

Desktop update

The most exciting news is that we are making huge progress with the update to the app itself. I can happily report that most of the flows are starting to feel really solid, and that once we get all the nitpicky details sorted out this new UI will be a big deal for those who have become frustrated with Scatter’s quirky current UI.

You can see the prototype here. My apologies for some of the links back and forth inside the prototype being wacky. There are dozens of artboards at this point and it is hard to manage all the links.

A few screenshots for those who are just passing through: