Looking at homepages of various IRC clients, I feel like I am back to 5 years ago when jQuery UI is still a thing: http://ircv3.net/software/clients.html
Equally out-of-date are the screenshots of the clients on the homepages. I don't think I will ever see an IRC desktop or web client that has decent UI according to today's standard. Then again probably I am too young to be their target audience.
Edit: Okay there are some IRC clients that actually look good, such as Riot, but not on the list of IRCv3 client.
If you're a designer yourself we could do with some design help on the Kiwi IRC project!
It's one of the largest web based IRC clients and currently getting a rewrite at the moment, but we've always had a lack of design input unfortunately.
Equally out-of-date are the screenshots of the clients on the homepages. I don't think I will ever see an IRC desktop or web client that has decent UI according to today's standard. Then again probably I am too young to be their target audience.
Edit: Okay there are some IRC clients that actually look good, such as Riot, but not on the list of IRCv3 client.