COOL UX-UI Design meeting minutes: 2026-09-27

[darshan]

Present

Ivana, Raul, Sahil, Darshan, Armin, Banobe, June, Pedro

Impress – Running on Primitives

• Shapes: Armin is working on shapes.

  • Quikee is about to merge this.

  • Armin will ping us once this happens.

• Vector: UI needs to be redone, with more work on the client side.

• Glue points

Ivana

• Calc – Cell selection

  • Cell selection currently appears difficult to read; the contrast between the background and text could be improved.

  • AI: Ivana to create an enhancement issue describing the current state and ideally how it should look.
    

    

• Meta-presentations – Statuses and icons

  • Ivana has some notes regarding UX/UI for Import Slides.

  • Ideally, create a GitHub enhancement issue with the UX tag.

  • Current version is much better, but we could still iterate on the warning/danger icon so it works better at that size and style.

  

• Slide notes icon – Impress

• Onboarding flow

  • Convert this into a GitHub issue.

  • Missing parts from Darshan’s WIP changes should be pushed into a WIP change chain:

    • Transition

    • Box-shadow per component

    • Overlays:

      • No overlays for onboarding.

      • Use overlays for the new updates dialog.

    • Highlight colour exception for components that already have a document-type background.

      • AI: Ivana to prepare a different case for the top toolbar (blue colour) as well.

• Existing issues

  • #16212 – Impress mobile: one vs. double-tap behaviour

  • #16208 – UX improvement: Font picker – show font families, not every style

  • #16227 – Change comment icon in Calc

  • #16229 – Impress Home tab: update lc_changelayout.svg and lc_assignlayout.svg icons

    • Need help with pushing the icons.

Raul

Current – Need Opinions

• Writer – Picture tab: Fill Color button

  

  • Looks good.

  • AI: Pedro & Ivana to test and see if we can come up with a better user flow.

  • Ivana suggested:

    • Add a tooltip explaining how to use it, since it only works with transparent images.

    • Alternatively, show the button only when the image is transparent, or enable/disable it depending on the image.

• Shape tab – Line Thickness dropdown

  • Discussed whether the dropdown could be confusing for users.

Next – Moving from Sidebar to Notebookbar

Two options were discussed:

• Shape > Effect section

  • Need to determine the appropriate placement.

• Formula > Formula section

  • Potentially move the entire sidebar into a panel similar to Extensions.

  • This area needs further work regardless.