iOS app progress report: Profiles (Patreon)

We're pretty far ahead with the UX design part of the app. All the screens that were intended to be in the MVP version have been designed (and I will be showing more in separate posts over time). This is what the profiles will look like.

Here's where the implementation is at:

Done:

Starting screen

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In progress:

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Profiles and profile editing

Home feed

Hashtag feed

Not started:

Notifications feed

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Reporting

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Favourites feed

And yes, local/federated feeds are not anywhere on this list. Though a progress report on profiles might not be the best place to talk about that decision, the short of it is that as a vehicle for onboarding new users, those feeds have too many downsides (confusion with geographical locality, alienation through unfamiliar languages, way too low signal-to-noise ratio, not to mention the risk of encountering obscene content -- all feedback I've received from new users over the years) and so I have opted to deliberately not include them in the MVP version.