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She's a designer, I'm a developer, and we've been wanting to build something together for a while. But, to be realistic, it needed to be something with a pretty narrow scope.
For years, we've curated stacks of hand-written index cards for our weekly date nights. In 2020, that's turned into weekly bottle-of-wine-on-the-deck nights, but we still do it. Once we started handing decks out to friends, and hearing back that they enjoyed them too, we decided it'd be fun to put Date Night Questions out into the world where anyone could use it.
My mom (beta tester #1) said: "It's fun. And, I've learned so many funny things about your dad. He took a class from Buckminster Fuller! We've been together 38 years! I probably knew that years ago, but have forgotten."
My wife designed and illustrated everything. I built her designs as set of web components (Deck, Card, etc) with Lit-Element.
As someone who only discovered later that you can drag the cards back and forth I think it'd be nicer for a click on the back of the previous card to navigate backwards. And it'd be cool if there was no disconnect between mouse and card movement. But consider all the things you did right if that's what I'm complaining about.
And that's great feedback. We built it mobile-first, for touch controls, and added clicking just to make it feel natural on a PC. Moving backwards when clicking on the previous card makes perfect sense & I'll add it to the backlog.
We tried a 1:1 mapping of mouse/finger movement to the cards and it wasn't as fluid as we'd expected. Especially on a larger screen, it could feel like you had to drag unnaturally far for the motion you wanted.