This feature has taken longer than planned, but I think the results are also better than expected.

The old options menu—as seen below for posterity—had a couple of large issues.

First, it was not discoverable by users. Generally people would click on the item itself before noticing the “gear” icon was even in the lower right corner. Sometimes ...

Alright folks, here is my current thinking about how to redesign setting item status:

This design is still a work in progress, but it fixes a lot of problems with the way this works now. I decided to take setting status out of the options menu and create a separate widget. There are a couple reasons I did this:

1. It ...

I think it’s common in interface design that the most used feature of your interface is generally the hardest to design. This element needs to be clear, fast, and easy to use.

On Shelfworthy, I think this feature—at the moment—is the options menu that users use to add items to their library. My current design for this ...