Login screen/Code input Design

aarontheissueguy

@purplevvay I was quite motivated to continue tinkering with qml and made this work. Note that this is very much a hack rather than a real code intended for real use:

https://aaroncloud.ml:8018/index.php/s/KKRGciomQG5cozF

aarontheissueguy

A summary of this thread:

This thread discusses many different ways on how the design of the Login screen of UT screen could be improved. The whole conversation got pretty big thus, here is a small summary on Ideas, wishes and approaches.

What is to consider when redesigning the Login?

The design needs to be convergent (usable in desktop and mobile mode)
The design should look good in light and dark mode as there is no way to incorporate theming well.
The design should not duplicate the look and feel of Android or iOS
The design needs to be usable as good with a pin as with a passphrase

Which designs have been discussed so far?

@purplevvay made many mock-ups for different design Ideas, and we borrowed some from the ICE thread as well:

1.

close to the current design
original Keyboard is used
slight transparency
Input field based on login method
Emergency is missing

2.

(my personal favorite)

repositioned input
bigger user Icon above the text input
Original keyboard is used
No design changes based on Input method
Very universal between light and dark mode
transparency for default user and input
blurred background

3.

full screen pin pad
extra click required for keyboard
not very convergent
modern
a mobile experience people are used to

I created a click dummy for this design:
https://aaron.place:8018/index.php/s/ot9SEG5FWfH2nJE

4.

These designs are more or less a variation of the designs in 2. but uses a custom version of the keyboard.

How far have we come to implement this our selves?

I have been able to tweak unity/lomiri to my liking, but we are not really close to anything that could be proposed in a pull request.

To @CiberSheep and the rest of the design team:

What do you think of our Ideas and mock-ups? Do you think this is something that should be added to UT? How could we further help you to turn this into reality? Do you have other thoughts?

To anyone:

If you are interested in turning this into reality, I would be happy to give you a small gift card as a thank-you

CiberSheep

@aarontheissueguy said in Login screen/Code input Design:

A summary of this thread:

To @CiberSheep and the rest of the design team:

What do you think of our Ideas and mock-ups? Do you think this is something that should be added to UT? How could we further help you to turn this into reality? Do you have other thoughts?

Thanks for putting them together
Personally I like 1 as keep the Ubuntu look and 2 (even I would suggest some tweaks) because is quite simple and yet with character.

Some additional thoughts:

Emergency is required and I think it should be visible
I think we should use UT OSK as the keyboard (which is themable)

kugiigi

I'm with number 1 too. It has the least change from the current design but makes it look a lot better.

mateo_salta

I think we could make #1 happen.

add phone icon + 'emergency' translated above keyboard
just keep user picked theme of keyboard

Capsia

Hi! Great to see that you like my designs! You might not have noticed that in the design there is also a proposal to move the emergency button. I think the button fits better on the home screen, because it should be very fast to access. The user should just swipe up or tap on the label to open the emergency dialer and maybe also emergency information in the future as discussed in the ICE thread. Since UT is hugely based on gestures I've also placed a camera swipe to make pictures when the phone is locked which might be useful.

I've used two different styles for the keyboard to see if the login theme fits to different keyboard themes.

Let me know what do you think

3T_Ed

The Emergency button, will it be a quick dial option for calling a preset (national/regional/personal) emergency number? Will it accomodate the (future) options as discussed in the ICE topic? Or both?

purplevvay

cibersheep said in Login screen/Code input Design:

(even I would suggest some tweaks) because is quite simple and yet with character

Glad to hear it! But which tweaks would you suggest? Ready to improve the mock-up asap!

capsia said in Login screen/Code input Design:

Let me know what do you think

It looks good! But I guess we should make the passcode/passphase bar transparent to let it be suitable for any theme.

kugiigi

@capsia The labels are good to know which swipe is which but I think they're too all over the place. Also personally, I still want my left/right swipe to unlock. I think it's not yet possible to open the camera in the lock screen anyway. You'd still need to unlock before seeing it.

mateo_salta

yep, lets focus on what is there to theme first.
I do really like the idea of the emergancy on bottom edge, will have to see how we code that

here is a screen of progress in implementing some theme tweaks:

I think maybe it could go a bit lighter?

CiberSheep

@purplevvay said in Login screen/Code input Design:

cibersheep said in Login screen/Code input Design:

(even I would suggest some tweaks) because is quite simple and yet with character

Glad to hear it! But which tweaks would you suggest? Ready to improve the mock-up asap!

Emergency button should be visible
I would use OSK for numbers as well
I think the top area needs a bit more air: icon and TextField could use some space around
Size of the TextField should fit one of the text sizes in the OS, maybe «medium»
Account icon should be system one
On landscape, maybe you could place the clock on top of the infographic and leave place for the TextField (that would need to go up when OSK shows up

Capsia

@3t_ed said in Login screen/Code input Design:

he Emergency button, will it be a quick dial option for calling a preset (national/regional/personal) emergency number? Will it accomodate the (future) options as discussed in the ICE topic? Or both?

The goal is to have a full ICE page with all the information needed when tapping on the emergency button, also it would be great if we could have some predefined phone numbers to call when opening the page because typing a full number might be too slow in an emergency. So opening the dialer without any predefined number or emergency info could be ineffective.

@purplevvay said in Login screen/Code input Design:

It looks good! But I guess we should make the passcode/passphase bar transparent to let it be suitable for any theme.

I've tried to use transparent background, but it doesn't look well when a user sets a light background:
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@kugiigi said in Login screen/Code input Design:

@capsia The labels are good to know which swipe is which but I think they're too all over the place. Also personally, I still want my left/right swipe to unlock. I think it's not yet possible to open the camera in the lock screen anyway. You'd still need to unlock before seeing it.

I think we can resize them to make them feel better, I was also thinking to show them only on the first login to introduce users that come from Android or other OSes to the unlock method. Then it would become an habit to the user so it shouldn't be needed any more.

For the camera not yet is keyword . It will come one day, but for now we can keep the unlock gesture also for the left swipe. In the future we could offer an option in the settings.

purplevvay

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

yep, lets focus on what is there to theme first.
I do really like the idea of the emergancy on bottom edge, will have to see how we code that

here is a screen of progress in implementing some theme tweaks:

I think maybe it could go a bit lighter?

Great to see this implemented in system!

@capsia said in Login screen/Code input Design:

I've tried to use transparent background, but it doesn't look well when a user sets a light background:

I think it looks very good! I guess the only one thing we need is to make the passphrase/passcode field less rounded to match the system look. (sorry for not saying that earlier)

The background in lockscreen is darker then the actual one. I put the white color background to see if that's true.

3T_Ed

@Capsia

also it would be great if we could have some predefined phone numbers to call when opening the page

Currently the option on Lomiri lockscreen just opens the dialer app, no predefined number.

The Emergency option as proposed, opening the ICE information would open a tab neccessary for emergency services, not dialing the number of emergency services instantly when needed as user/owner -> one tap away from being connected to emergency services to call for help immediately.

Not looking to make this design more complicated but wouldn't it be more logical to have two buttons on lockscreen?

Emergency call
Emergency info (seperate ICE icon as discussed in the ICE thread)

Capsia

Hi, I have a few updates. I've managed to make the white text more visible on light backgrounds using a bit bigger text and I made a design for the emergency screen.

@purplevvay said in Login screen/Code input Design:

I guess the only one thing we need is to make the passphrase/passcode field less rounded to match the system look.

Thanks for the suggestion! Done

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I've added also some more designs to show how it could look in desktop mode:

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@3t_ed said in Login screen/Code input Design:

Not looking to make this design more complicated but wouldn't it be more logical to have two buttons on lockscreen?

This would probably be confusing when you are in an emergency situation and you don't know which button to press. Here is what I've thought will be displayed when the emergency button is pressed/swiped:

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I've also found a few more discussions on the forum about lockscreen / login screen that might be useful when thinking about the design:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2278/ubuntu-touch-for-phone-lock-greeter-design
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2240/home-screen-locked
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2206/login-greeter-design-for-desktop

CiberSheep

@capsia said in Login screen/Code input Design:

This is very interesting. I don't know if the OSK can show up if the cursor is not in a TextField though

aarontheissueguy

@cibersheep Couldnt we make the actual textfield invisible and create a replica to create that look?

mateo_salta

@capsia oh, I like the emergency screen, this could easily be in the bottom edge. We would then need to make corresponding gsettings, and settings in the settings app.

mateo_salta

@purplevvay yes, this is implemented as a background could be white in places making the text there in unreadable, if we come up with a better option, this could be removed
possibilities?

adapt color with calculating brightness(could lead to just grey text, or partially disappearing text)
drop shadow(difficult to get right)
more complicated text overlay blend mode( more difficult, resource intensive, might not exist in a simple command)

mateo_salta

@3t_ed yes, if we were to add speed dial for emergency numbers it would send it through url dispatcher I believe and only pre fill in the number, I will double check how they launch the dialer app.