Hi everyone.
I have some suggestions for Various UI Elements:
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Select fields: Allow for actually dark colors where the text turns white automatically. Airtable offers 4 shades for every color and they are actually distinguishable. Thats great for displaying things like Status or priority without making everything too colorful. I love that you can add your own colors in fibery, but unfortunately even pitch black is a light gray. Also: It would be amazing if you could save your own colors globally.
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Select fields 2: Not a huge fan of the slightly darker border. I think itād feel more modern without it. Personally Iād also prefer 50% border radius.
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Linked record fields: Iād much prefer a solid light gray Background to the white + 1px border. The white + border makes it visually less calm in my opinion. See airtable/Notion/most other tools. Also I think sometimes its great to see the small arrow indicators to see, if one/multiple records can be linked, but tbh most of the time I whish i could turn this off so it looks cleaner and less distracting. Also height wise, the difference between select fields and linked record fields feels to big. Which select fields where slightly lower and linked records an tiny bit taller.
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Calender: Records are too tall. With 4+ entries per day, the layout basically breaks. It might be nice for people with very few entries. But the option to make them much smaller (see google calender) would be much appreciated.
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Dashboards: Itās impossible to hide the colored dot in the beginning at the start of a record in list view. I wish it was possible, it wastes space and a lot of time I donāt need it. And if I do Iād want the actual db name, but then I have both dot and name, which takes even more space.
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Buttons: I really like how you can access buttons with a left click. However when you open a record, if would be awesome if you could access your buttons through a menu [ā¦] Icons on the top right. In some cases I have a bunch and seeing all of them just in the header next to Dates, Select fields etc feels wrong. Also: Conditional visibility would be huge. For example: Hide Button ācompletedā when record already has status ācompletedā etc.
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Buttons 2: When choosing āmove belowā, let me display them next to each other
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Lists view ā Table view: Something inbetween. First off: Iām a big fan of Fibery List view! However since all properties are just being piled up on the right, it only works for very minimalistic views. At the same time the table view often feels visually unfortunate if you try to display a bigger lists with more visible properties. I wish there was a new in between option that looked more like Airtable Lists: you can still adjust the individual columns but just a simple line after each row. Much calmer/cleaner than a table view but same information density.
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Overall UI Look and feel: I wish everything had a little more contrast and feels less soft and āfadedā. Basically airtable in terms of UI. Subjective obviously but I feel like they really nailed colors & contrast.
Also less warm colors or the option to turn it off. Recently fibery became weirdly warm and brown-colored. It seems like many people like it but an option to revert it would be nice. It feels more toy-like now and less like a serious tool. Not a fan at all
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More Layout options for Records: Basically more sophisticated Layout options for record views. Things like Columns, Title above field etc.
I most cases, the minimalistic approach of fibery works surprisingly well, but in some cases, especially for things like invoices etc, it would be great to have some key Info in bigger size and next to each other. -
Full Width Title/Details for Records: I love how you can adjust List Views in Records to Full width. Iād love it even more if I could also set the Title and Details to full width. Often times they now sit slightly awkward in the middle while header and content are full width.
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Tabs on Dashboard widgets: Pretty much just this. Example: If I had a Tasks widget that had Tabs for ātoday, overdue, No Dateā etc, it would be a game changer. I think the ability to build this in notion is one of the very few things that Iād say they really have going for them (most other things not so much). It would be possible to build Dashboards that are a lot more information-dense and multi functional.
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Tabs & multiple views on regular Pages: I guess this goes against the overall idea of Fiberys Menu structure but I do miss Tabs. Not a huge fan of having 8+ Pages just for projects because I want different filters and views. Thinking about this, if dashboards had tabs, I could also just build out most of those views out in one Dashboard and expand them as needed.
thats whatās been on my mind recently when using Fibery. Itās probably easy to tell that Iāve been unsing airtable a lot before and I agree with a lot of their design decisions. Obviously very subjective but they arguably did a pretty good job with their UI.
One general note: I was quite bothered by some of the points above and was looking for an alternative to my (relatively newly made) Fibery build for my business. But I quickly realized that there are a lot of unique things about Fibery that make so much sense that I wonāt be getting anywhere else. So I decided to stay and suggest them instead 
Cheers.
