Mad Props!

I’m still actively working on Halfwit (if not its home page), and this weekend I took the time to give it a bit of a visual update.

While I like textual toolbar buttons (and judging by the current crop of software from Microsoft, so do they), I had a few users telling me I could save screen real-estate by switching to icons. They were right, of course, but I resisted until now.

So this version takes it to its logical extreme. Witness the new home page:

So the toolbar now takes up only a few pixels at the top of the window.

When you switch to a page that can accept a bit of contextual information (like a phrase to search for on the Search page), you’ll lose a bit of vertical space:

… and likewise when you click the “Write” button at the top-right to post an update:

All in all I’m happy with the update. Let me know what you think! Don’t forget I’m accepting feedback on our UserVoice site!