Neumorphism

[manzinello]

If I want to apply Neumorphism design to mailgo, which changes must be done from a design point of view?

What are the PROs? What are the CONs?

[OliverRedman]

I've had a little play with the idea today and i've come across a few things,

firstly using full on Neumorphism may not be suitable for the current design of the layout, due to the lack of space between buttons it can lead to a cluttered look rather than the airy spacious feeling that is often associated with it. Example:

if we were to stay true to Neumorphistic design it may be beneficial to have a look at enlarging the window size of Mailgo so we are able to create more margin between elements so it will look less cluttered.

Without changing the current Mailgo window size I think it may be good to look at Neumorphism inspired design for instance:

The main problem I see with this approach is the mobile version, as you cannot "hover" on a mobile device which may lead the users to think the design is fairly boring.

Let me know what you think and what areas you think are worth investigating.

[OliverRedman]

Here's an example of full on neumorphism with 20px of margin between each

[manzinello]

Thank you so much for your work! I think that the idea to add a space between buttons is perfect. I think that the last screen you have sent is really wonderful. What about the box-shadow? Can you send me the CSS you are using here? What about the dark mode? The box-shadows are the same?

No problem for the hover on mobile, what are the behaviour of the buttons in Neumorphism when they are not clicked on mobile?

Do you want to help directly in the implementation? You can directly submit a PR with the reference to this issue changing the SCSS of Neumorphism. Otherwise I will implement it!

Thank you so much.

[OliverRedman]

Lovely to hear from you Matteo,

I submitted a pull request that includes the updated scss file for Neumorphism. I completed forgot about darkmode when I sent those screenshots, tomorrow I will update with the darkmode version.

[manzinello]

Thank you so much for your work, really. I have built mailgo now and the neumorphism is now present in index.neumorphism.html under examples folder, it is already present as an attribute in configuration object

[OliverRedman]

No problem, it was fun. Let me know if anything else comes up design wise, I'd be happy to contribute more