Thereโs some small fixes coming to Gallery view.
1. Consistent spacing w/ responsive sizing
Weโre fixing that to get more even spacing and structure:
2. Bottom row left alignment
2. Bug: border round corner at bottom of image
3. Bug: title padding and margin squeezed out in certain viewport sizes
4. Text alignment change: left-alignment
5. Font size change: โtinyโ image size with smaller text
6. Tooltips on hover (desktop)
Congratulations! Itยดs beatiful.
In terms of aignment for the items, I prefer the old style, i.e. items were centered horizontally, rather than left aligned all of them.
For instance, we are using the gallery view for view navigation menus, sometimes, and we just have few items, like three or four.
It used to be displayed in the middle of sreeen, which was perfect.
But now small chunk of cards are pushed into the upper left cornerโฆ Not user friendly.
I assume AppSheet should have been using Flexbox CSS to control the alignment.
I preferr the center alighnment with the evenly spread the space, which was old style.
I Agree with u
itโs not good, and Not user friendly
Hi Koichi,
Just to be clear, you preferred when the tiles were centered, but were you ok with the spacing when you had 2 or 3 tiles on the last row?
hi @Arthur_Rallu
Short answer is yes to your question.
If possible please add an option for user to choose the alignment for the image and text.
I agree! My whole team is pissed at me
I Agree with you.
Hi Team Dev, Please reture last version. Thanks
I completely agree with @tsuji_koichi on this.
In terms of Alignment, the Old style looked much better and user-friendly.
In almost 90% of my apps, I use Gallery for creating navigation menus for different views.
If there are only 3-4 icons on the screen it looks bad. Earlier it used to center itself and looked pleasing to the eyes.
Please please at least allow us to select the alignment. I strongly believe app creators should be given a choice whether we want to include the new features in the existing apps. Most of the apps were working great and now again we might need to change how the app looks because of these UI updates.
For ex - See the attached screenshots and please try to think from a customer perspective. It looks bad. Earlier everything was center-aligned and looked great.
I really hope we will be provided some solution to this. Either allow us to select the alignment or give us a choice to opt in to the new UI features.
I echor you.
Now new gallery view styling and appearance is getting more closer to what we see in card viewโฆ
We are losing the uniqueness in terms of gallery view styling which we used to have before.
New gallery view styling can be imitated by card view to get similar results, which is posing a question to me why we have specifically gallery viewโฆ while we lose the beauties we used to have
I believe this update has affected most of the applications with the navigation menu as you mentioned. I hope it rolls back soon. This is not at all user-friendly.
Yes. I thought my browser error.
From my standpoint, more choice in app layout is always betterโฆ But if I were forced to chose between the new Gallery style vs old, I much prefer the newer style for photo gallery as well as navigation menusโฆ just my 2ยข.
I used to use gallery for navigation menus, but I have found card a much more flexible + visually appealing option since their additionโฆ For example:
Dear AppSheet Team, Please roll back this change or ideally give us the option to set the position of the label in the UX designer. While choosing the view our team very carefully considered the wording of our gallery labels to suit the layout. Sadly with this update they no longer look aesthetically pleasing. May we also have a borderless image option back (No harm in trying).
God damn it. Another update with no option to choose to go back to old style/format. Itโs exactly like 2 years ago when they changed the theme/brand color scheme. Itโs so frustrating i wanna scream. Visual changes are really sensitive when you have no options to choose from. My navigation menu looksโฆ not so good. It was better.
I am not sure if this is intended or a bug but it looks really bad.
definitely a bug. Reportedโฆ
Hi,
Can you please shed some light on whether we will be given an option to roll back to old gallery view? Or to at least adjust the alignment?
I have made detailed comment above to explain my issues.
Thank you.
My menu now looks very bad!
I prefer old style for gallery views, and wondering if grouping is getting avaiable for gallery view.
Gallery view is one of list type views, but also it is one one view where grouping is not available, not sure why.
@tsuji_koichi Gallery view has been fairly limited, and it makes sense that we allow group by, especially as it applies to other card-like views, especially with large amounts of images. That has been noted.
Another thing about gallery view, is that itโs often being used for dual purposes: a high volume โphoto albumโ style layout, and also as a low volume โlauncherโ style component, with core actions, similar to what is seen on a lot of homepages, where it launches the user to a focused set of different tasks and locations. The launcher kind of UI lends itself to a more compact limited grid, as thereโs usually only 3-10 core actions, often represented by just an icon and a label. This is the other use case we have been thinking about, especially as we start some efforts on desktop viewports as well.
It might be worth noting that AppSheet itself uses (used?) the gallery view for at least the launcher sample app, and likely in other sample apps. This approach absolutely originated with AppSheet.
@Mike_Moss I donโt want to sound rude but I donโt see a way in wich AppSheet is better than other alternatives as a โphoto albumโ solution. Personally Iโm using the Gallery view just for โlauncherโ style wich is advice by AppSheet as @Steve said.
I like the fact that you are always working hard in order to give a better UX, but I think you need more insights from the other teams to better understand how this kind of changes would impact users. Maybe even applying UX changes just after user feedback. Iโm just giving my opinion, maybe you have statistics about the gallery view usage or something like that. Iโm having the same problems others have said, and also think that options is the best way of introducing things
Thanks everyone for the feedback on this.
Itโs pretty clear app creators have been using the Gallery View for different purposes. As Mike mentioned, there are at least 2 clear use cases: a gallery with a high-volume of images and some sort of portal to different views or apps (with usually a smaller number of options).
Some of you do not like the new UI for the second use case, primarily because of the left-alignment of the tiles and the left-alignment of the text within each tile. When there are less tiles, itโs not as important for the eye to be able to quickly scan the tiles - one of the benefits of the new UI.
Weโll work on enabling this use case and get back to you after. Note that the solution will not let app creators control each of these settings (text alignment, tile alignment, spacing between tiles, padding, etc) independently. While we understand that some of you would like to have that kind of customization flexibility, our aim is to provide a cohesive UI that works well, that is more easily maintainable, and that gets app creators to a working app as quickly as possible.
Hereยดs my vote also to go back to center the text under the icons in Gallery View!
Thanks @Arthur_Rallu for hearing us out, and look for a solution.
A hide text option Too.
Totally agree. New visual style is not visually pleasing. When I first notice it, I did not know it was done intentionally by Appsheet. I thought something went wrong with it. Spent quite a bit of time trying to see if I can fix it, but unable to find anyway to do it. Now I know why after I saw this announcement.
I think while it is good that it solve one problem, but it causes another problem. Preferably, the change should fix both problems, but if it can only fix one, I prefer to keep the old visual where it was centered.
If possible, have an option for which style the user will like to choose. Hope it can be rolled back asap.
Thanks.
User should be given an option to choose the alignments.
The โAboutโ page still looks ugly left aligned as well.
To recap a comment I discussed w/ Koichi: Thereโs two patterns we see people using the Gallery view for. Hereโs a peek about our thinking on this.
We have the photo style, expansive gallery. Thatโs the primary changes I showed at the top of the post. Itโs suitable for high cardinality, image based browsing: comparing, choosing, etc.
Now, I want to discuss the second use case I mentioned: that of a Launcher style UI.
For the launcher use case, we tend to see destinations or core actions, often expressed as an icon, with a brief text label (similar to a phone home screen). Itโs โgo somewhereโ or 'do somethingโ.
Even before the changes to gallery view, we donโt think that a launcher UI grid has to span all the way across a large viewport.
Letโs illustrate a difference: You have 8 or so base destinations or processes.
(Launcher UI patterns tend to be lower cardinality than image galleries)
On mobile, this wonโt really be different. Items will be placed at the top, and thereโs only room for a few columns max. Space is always the constraint. Items are naturally packed together.
Itโs tablets and desktop where it renders a bit different. Our goal is a contained grid-like structure that doesnโt stretch too far across the viewport, and maintains structure. We want to avoid the bottom row with just one or two dangling items. Hereโs a sketch:
Determining the columns to rows balance is something weโre working towards; this is a heads up.
Another change we want is for your icons to have some whitespace around them. Currently, since the image is automatically set to โfillโ the card, we see a lot of apps where icons have little to no space and bleed to the edges:
Weโre planning on having a way where we can fit the images. We want to cut down on some of the slicing and dicing work youโd have to do so icons fit in a balanced way.
Stay tuned for moreโฆ
This is great.
For the text at the bottom on each tile, we prefer to be center aligne, I reckon this is also taken into account for the upgrade, thank you for listening to our voice!
Very Niceโฆthank you for listening to our voice
Great. Iโm sure this changes will make our userโs experience better
Before my menu gallery was this:
Now it is like:
Hey waitโฆ what is that sidemenu? It looks awesome. And how do I make it like that?
Hi @Mike_Moss have you seen this post?
@Mike_Moss Are there any updates here?
There it goes another good feature deleted in pro of a โwe think this is betterโ change.
I donโt understand why this as well as the Range slider was changed without any feedback before any rollout.
This is so stupidโฆ Iโm sorry but any time I see my App Launcher I remember that we do not own our apps 100%, Iโm kinda scared about the changes that are coming to us in the future if they are going to be implemented as wrongly as these ones
I think that we can just expect that this will never be fixed to our real needs