UX design help

[leekleak]

Lol, so unfortunately I wrote the email just as things got quite busy in life and while it'll stay that way for a while I did make a couple of screens.

My goal was to first just take a look at all the present screens and just try to find as many faults in them as possible. I documented most of my notes in the Figma project as comments and hopefully the link I added has them visible.

The visuals I don't much care about, but the concepts do include some pretty big conceptual changes to the navigation which I do think are quite an improvement and if it's unclear how it should work, please ask.

Also, I made all the notes from the viewpoint of myself assuming that my workflow roughly matches that of an average user so if some of the things I note as UX issues are actually there to address a specific use case, please tell me about that.

Final note about the comments and specifically since there's quite a lot of them it may bring upon an idea that I hate the current UI. Just to be clear I think the current UI is fine. It works. But I do think it could be better.

You can navigate between the few screens I've concepted out in the expandable side bar's top left corner.

https://www.figma.com/design/Vf30ZLTXg4Sc8KYF597jdH/KDE-Connect?m=auto&t=o68xbcnwYfd84wV1-1
On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 1:58 PM, Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be great.
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM leekleak <leekleak at proton.me> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I see.
>>
>> I guess I should probably make some mockups first and get some user feedback to ensure that the changes I have in mind look good to everyone, not just me.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On Friday, 01/02/26 at 20:54 Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We already have some views in Compose, but definitely not all. In general we don't just convert XML to Compose, unless using Compose gives us some kind of advantage or makes implementing some feature or fixing some bug easier. If someone wants to convert things to Compose, I'm fine with that as long as the result is not worse than what we have now.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM leekleak <leekleak at proton.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey, I've been thinking of helping to improve the UX of KDE Connect.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I have no experience working with XML, just Compose, so I've been thinking what would be the best course of action for me.
>>>>
>>>> Technically I could just do what most designers do - make some mock-ups on Figma, get some user feedback and then ask the programmers to implement that. Sadly I am aware that's not quite how open source projects work :/ If I don't make the changes myself, no one will.
>>>>
>>>> If all the screens were in Compose I could just implement all the changes myself, however now I'd probably have to also convert them from XML beforehand which would lead to very big and unwieldy PRs. Thus I'm left wondering if there are plans or an undergoing effort to move to Compose and if so, how's it progressing.
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