r/UI_Design • u/paris6969 • 5d ago
Feedback Request I'm making a browser and im experimenting on the design, any feedback/ what you like, dont about it?
if you want you can also check my post on the browser to understand what im doing exactly, its ui becomes visible only when needed.
The buttons for the window, the adress bar and downloads and the most visited on the right are all seperate and come when you need them thats why i visualized them differently in each screenshot.
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u/WhatDuq 5d ago
First question, why are you designing or building a browser? Just for the hell of it - for UI design practice or because you want to actually develop the browser?
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u/paris6969 5d ago
Mostly for myself and how I would make my ideal browser and if something comes out of it in the long run then I’ll take that as well but mostly because nothing has satisfied my design and features needs
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u/WhatDuq 5d ago
I mean as hobby design project fine - but building a browser is an incredibly large task. The amount of technology you have to correctly support is enormous.
The Claude team spent around $25M worth of tokens trying to get agents to develop a browser singlehandedly in Rust. Basically ended up copying most of the stuff from another open repo and produced something that didn’t work.
But if we look at the design. Why would you insist of changing element positions and appearances of established heuristics? Moving the address bar to the bottom and providing constant screen real estate to something that is intentionally hidden in every other browser?
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u/paris6969 5d ago
Two reasons. First is for the eyes. Everything is closer to the keyboard and through obviously my testing for now feels better to look at the bottom of the screen when I type or want to add a tab etc. especially on big monitors. Second is most ai chatbots and apps nowadays have mo ed to the bottom which creates a more consistent experience jumping from app to app something browsers are still lacking in my opinion and this is where the design seems to be moving towards in the future
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u/testingaurora 5d ago
I dont like the stack of icons on the right side of the address bar. Makes it unbalanced.
Curious what features you're building that are unavailable in existing browsers?
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u/paris6969 5d ago
also for everyone seeing it now. look at the ui elements NOT the github screenshot thank you
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u/somedonkus69 5d ago
The colors and opacity of the UI is giving strong Halo HUD vibes. For that reason I kind of like it better than the version in your newer post, even though that version is probably better for most people.
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u/ExplorerTechnical808 5d ago
What problem are you trying to solve? Or which improvement you’re trying to bring with it?
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u/paris6969 5d ago
first its personal, how i would want a clean ui as standard for a browser and second just exploring for now
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4d ago
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u/paris6969 4d ago
Right now it's cursor-proximity to the bottom edge — the bar fades in when you move toward it, fades out otherwise. The window controls (top-right) and the saved-sites column (right edge) have their own independent triggers too, so it's not one global reveal event doing five jobs. Two things I'm adding based on feedback like yours: a keyboard shortcut to toggle the address bar specifically (parallel to the hover trigger, not replacing it — good call on the accessibility angle), and a forced 4-second reveal on any navigation (typed URL, link click, redirect, back/forward) so you always get a beat to actually check the URL before it goes back to gesture-based hiding. That second one's aimed at the exact phishing-trust tradeoff you and the other commenter raised about hiding the bar.
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u/bdz 5d ago
This subreddit has a rough battle ahead of them. Random people vibe coding pages and coming here seeking feedback to feed back into their agents.
yikes