Features immediately began to roll down like rain on a window. Features in SugarSteem that are in the build are

• Personalization
• Favoriting Authors and Saving Content for Later
• Favoriting Tags and organized in an easy to read system
• Steem Metrics: voting, bandwidth, % of vote, a slider to adjust my vote
• Far better layout and reskin so its easy to engage in content and users
• Alternate views of reading content. Heurisitics state that men read lists where, Women read images
• User Adoption - one of the hardest to overcome here at Steem
• User Retention - another one that is impossibly hard here. 1 million users here but active less then 25% i bet
• Onboarding - How do we educate users to engage on our platform. You should hire @overkillcoin for this. He's got the best onboarding infographic tools I've seen to date on this platform

These are just the main points I found collectively from the community channels I've been in, the posts I've created with user feedback, radio shows I've done with @aggroed @ma1neevent @shadowspub . All great people and resources to help shape the UI.

Overall I couldn't be more enthusiastic about getting SugarSteem into the right place for the benefit of the community and finally created

Why Sugar Steem?

Thats an easy one. Sugar i saw as an accelerant. Sugar gives you energy. I recently adopted a kill shelter dog from being euthanized within 24 hours. The name she had on her card in the cage was Sugar.

I realized then how great would it be to have a kill shelter dog that I rescued forever made huge in the world of Steem as the name of my website UI. I didn't realize until later how perfect the name really was. Metaphorically she was the "extra kick" that steemit.com needed. I also thought she was the lil extra pinch of energy that steemit.com was lacking. I then thought if Steem ever had a conference and SugarSteem took off, I'd buy a queens chair as a publicity stunt, have sugar sit in it and people could get pictures with the spokesmodel and branding of SugarSteem. I thought of so many things immediately.

While I still believe that SugarSteem will be great and its taking a LOT more time than i anticipated I really hope between @elear and I we can get this thing going. As it sits now I am looking for Developers if you can lend a hand or assistance thatd be great.

I currently have

• a Github housing the features and issues ready to go for development. They can be found open source here Find Sugar Steem's Github Here

• a Zeplin.io file that I can share with development of all the design work for CSS, spacing, fonts, and all style guide information

• Everything built in Sketch ready to go for development

• I have a discord channel for development and for design as well as supportive community members. Find Sugar Steem's Discord Channel here

Steemians You Should be Following that are Making a Difference in the Community. Thank you!

Personal Shout Outs for the generous upvotes to my UI contribution to the Steem Blockchain.

@cryptoctopus, @transisto, @donkeypong, @totolina, @arama, @analisa, @sykochica, @inquiringtimes, @demotruk, @z8teyb289qav9z, @fulltimegeek, @eroche, @ausbitbank, @drakos, @wesleybos, @bestbroplayer, @danielsaori, @whatsup, @arcange, @jesta, @ilanaakoundi, @hr1, @makerhacks, @davemccoy, @protegeaa, @blocktrades, @ebargains, @jamesbrown, @deanliu, @fabien, @drmake, @patrice, @sift666, @coffeex, @abh12345, @overkillcoin, @acidyo, @wackou, @therealwolf, @xaero1, @fredrikaa, @jerrybanfield, @lrock, @playitforward, @mod-tamichh, @noboxes, @aggroed, @kodaxx, @dbzfan4awhile, @teamhumble, @kimzilla, @scorer, @shawnvanderveer, @dshelton32, @yabapmatt, @carface, @slickwilly, @edwardlewis, @geofftk, @socky, @bbrewer, @etcmike, @austinhopper, @alexis555, @bue, @techslut, @protegeaa, @fminerten, @steempty, @stephen.king989, @ma1neevent, @spydo, @tombstone, @fuzzyvest, @dedicatedguy, @personz, @v4vapid, @totolina, @leeuw, @morseke1, @cryptocat, @mes, @poeticsnake, @princessmewmew, @spiritualmax, @edb1984, @remcovdpluijm, @eeks, @clayford08, @etcmike, @mattclarke, @datascience, @netuoso, @followbtcnews, @brandonp, @steempty, @fminerten, @shadowspub, @ammonite, @themarkymark,

How to find me
Steemit: www.steemit.com/@theUXyeti
Steemit: www.steemit.com/@sugarsteem
Discord SugarSteem: https://discord.gg/25E7QtJ
Discord: TheUXyeti or TheUXyeti#5698
Dlive Channel: https://dlive.io/@theuxyeti
IG: thetravelyeti
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@zachsbb8