Mathieu Jourdan

Funkwhale

Funkwhale is an audio platform that bridges the gap between having a local library player, and online streaming services. It takes from both worlds, so that you can listen to your music online and stay in control. It also allows artists and podcasters to publish their creations, and encourages the share of free licensed content.

I participate to the Funkwhale project as a UI designer, and as a member of the steering group. Lately, we've been most notably rethinking the foundations of library management, and putting together a Design System. Check out the UI components implemented by wvffle!

View the UI library Discover Funkwhale

Mastodon

Amongst social media, there are many micro-blogging platforms. Mastodon is one of them, and probably the most succesful attempt so far of building a social netork out of big tech corporations.

The web UI sports an optional multi-column view, called "advanced interface". While useful to keep track of several hashtags in parallel, it comes with some very unfortunate flaws. We illustrated the case on github, and made a proposal for a much smoother experience.

See our proposal Join Mastodon

Joplin

With its markdown editor, its capacity to embed multimedia content, its support for both hierarchical folders and tags arrange in familiar layout, Joplin is a note-taking app to effectively organize your thoughts. It runs on several platforms (React Native for iOS and Android, Electron for Desktops), works local first, encrypts your notes and syncs them across your devices.

Have we just found the one note-taking app that fullfils all our expectations!? Not exactly, as some usability issues may discourage newcomers to stick with Joplin.

See our case Get Joplin

Open Street Map

The worldwide cartography project is sometimes depicted as an "alternative to Google Maps". This is unfortunate, as it results in people visiting openstreetmap.org while expecting to find a top-notch tool to calculate their itineraries. Then they experience frustration and leave (or stay) with a bad impression.

Yet it is possible to provide visitors with a pleasant experience for fullfilling their basic routing needs, whilst keeping the strength of what is actually intended as a tool for the community folks editing the map.

See our search forms Explore the map

Paperwork

The app features a list of documents in a left pane, and shows the selected document in the main view

"Scan and forget". With such an appealing slogan, I absolutely had to try Paperwork, and see how it could help me deal with the many papers I receive by mail, and I struggle sorting.

Things were not as simple as I hoped, so I did an in-depth review and suggested improvements. All that was very well received by Paperwork's author, who did bring life to our mockups.

Read our study Get Paperwork

Diffuse

Mockup showing three panes of equal width, with a file being open in the first pane, and the two other panes showing their empty state.

Dealing with multiple versions of a file and struggling to tell the differences? Diffuse is here to ease your pain.

The project maintainer wanted their app to get included into GNOME Circle. This required updating the UI to comply with Circle's inclusion criteria. It took me a few days to provide mockups and wireframes for this complete UI overhaul.

View our designs Get Diffuse

Lutris

This highly praised game launcher requires to go through many obstacles before running your first game. We shared the story of our first steps with Lutris, and provided designs for an enhanced onboarding. Some of our propositions were implemented as part of Lutris 0.5.8.

See our onboarding review Get Lutris

Tilix

Tilix was a great terminal app, whose developpment ceased after its maintainer stepped down from this project. Too bad, we had great plans for it!

See our concepts

LinuxFr.org

LinuxFr.org spreads news about free software movement and Linux related software to the french-speaking community. News are written by the community with the site collaborative editor, and published after moderation approval. The site also sports comments, blogs, and forums, among other features.

Despite an increasing number of visits, the contribution activity of the site was declining. We ran a study and understand why, analyzed the answers of our 285 participants, and identified priorities for the site. We proposed a new categorisation to organize content, a new interface that suits both desktop and mobile devices, and more.

Read our report

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