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Someone asked how Nothing Phone UI looks. Worth sharing as a post. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lb_o@lemmy.world to c/android

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Hi, where else can I upload this image to illustrate what I mean?

This is UI on my nothing phone. I see a major benefit for my everyday mental wellbeing to not have my phone shooting at me with all colors, and instead being "just a good interface".

There might be some issues with icon recognition and speed of access, but since that's your device and your icon placement, you eventually getting used to it. In exchange you receive a clean UI which doesn't overload your receptors, which is a very important thing for the device you look at often.

Weather widget in the middle often shows calendar events, but I don't discolse that for privacy.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

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[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Sorry this is the only thing I can think of when looking at those icons

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

I've been using T-UI for probably 8+ years now. It hasn't been updated in ages, but it really doesn't need to be.

I've even built it out by creating a tui folder with empty files in it. Tasker has tasks set to execute when the files are modified, and T-UI has aliases set to touch specific files if commands are entered.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like Nothing.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fine, Dad, take my upvote.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And my Axe!

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Let's have an obscure reference fight!

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Good fight, good night!

[–] elevenbones@piefed.social 8 points 21 hours ago

Nothing to see here, folks...

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I do something similar on my phones. The screen turns on to a blank page with just the time and alarm/media playback information.

Home

To access my applications I swipe left. I've made the icons monochrome and removed their names so I rely on search to find and open the app I want. This makes app launching less of an addictive reflex and more of a conscious decision each time.

App Drawer

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, the same principle.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

What's that Clock widget and what icon pack areyou using here? That's not Articons is it?

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's the Orbit clock in the Kvaesitso launcher (one of the stock options). And yes, the icon pack is Arcticons, although I also use Alembicons to create icons for apps that aren't currently supported by Arcticons.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ah, no wonder the clock looks familiar. I've use Kvaesitso before. Thanks.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

While I've heard mostly good stuff about Nothing, I noticed an interesting tidbit about early investors on Wikipedia:

raised $7 million from investors including Tony Fadell, Kevin Lin, Steve Huffman, and Casey Neistat.

Steve Huffman of Reddit fame, as a Lemmy denizen I'd say not ideal to be pouring more money in his pockets lol

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I only can say... Fuck spez

[–] WFloyd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher and a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.

Edit: This is just one tool, you also have to really want it to break habits.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a way to bring back colorful icons without changing the launcher ? The phones and the launcher look solid but these icons make it pretty dull

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

There's a setting for it yeah

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, IIRC you can choose between monochrome and colorful options, but it immediately loses that touch and looks like any other Android phone, which is not a bad thing, Android has a good design overall.

[–] RouxBru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can do the same monochromatic thing with nova launcher and whicons

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Awesome! I am glad I have your comment in my history. If I ever change phone to another android, I will come back to it, so I know how to swap to monochrome :3

[–] RouxBru@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Look it doesn't look as good as your UI, but it's as close as I could get to the monochrome look that I wanted, The widgets still have full colour:

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

That looks neat, what is the launcher name?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago

I have one. I hated the stock skin. I like having the apps I use regularly groups together by purpose on my home screen so I can get to them quickly. I immediately re-skinned it.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

does the phone come with bloatware?

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

No, it's almost empty.The only bloatware I had in the first version was YouTube application, which I don't use. And they have app to play with glyphs, but not installed by default either.At least it was like that oj the first version.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty light on bloatware. I broke my Nothing 2A's screen a couple months ago (it got ran over by a Camry) and I still miss it... I mean I still have it, and it still works but finding a cheap screen for it in the US is difficult

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

if one may pry further, what has been the most obvious of the bloatware on the device? how irritating has it been?

context: i'm tapping this comment out on a samsung device that has a whole shadow suite of bloatware apps which simply can't be disabled on stock. i am considering a switch but don't want to end up swapping a frying pan for the fire.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

As a first time Samsung user (with OneUI 7. So I never had experience when they were very bad from what I heard), I like a few of their apps more than Google's or other options tbh. Their Notes app is basically needed for handwriting notes using the stylus. I like their Calendar app more than Google's, and it's a toss between Fossify Calendar. Their Clock app is kind of amazing that I can make alarm groups that I can set to turn on or off based on a few conditions.

Bixby and AI stuff though can fuck off. Turned it off immediately.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh fuck no... Samsung taught me to hate bloatware. Nothing is not even in the same league. The 2a came with an app to integrate other Nothing devices and an AI wallpaper generator. It also came with some software to integrate with the glyph interface that I actually liked.

Just an FYI, a lot of phones can now be debloated using Shizuku and Canta. Just search the right process for your phone

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/xKLKl3H9rro

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Nah, this is just a random complaining video for the sake of complaining.

Complaining about the default button size for the panel where you can change button size is just making an unnecessary noise. It is intentionally done like that to force you to change their size so phone becomes yours.

If something is using dots motif, it doesn't mean everything else should automatically use dots, it would look be silly. Different locations on the phone use different visual style, that's okay.

Then it goes into glyph selection and missing actual glyph selection setting.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why three comments? 😜

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I got a CloudFlare page telling me I was blocked.

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[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BankID spotted!

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Jo. Proprietary foundation of Swedish society.

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

looks very clean

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