Questions tagged [design]
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Weird CSS bug in profile reputation tab
When I move the cursor over the left sub-tabs in my reputation tab of the profile page, there's a strange flickering, I suppose due to some JavaScript race condition or similar. I guess an image is ...
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Skeptics updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Site's background causing strange effect on question title
I've opened this question, and I noticed a strange effect on the last two words of the title:
At first I thought about a rendering glitch, but then I noticed the other marks and realized (at least I ...
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New top bar breaks layout with extra blank line
As shown in the picture there's an extra white band (I guess where the old top bar used to be).
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What's the flying saucer image on the Skeptics.SE error page?
Through this meta question I discovered that there's a funny picture of a mock flying saucer crash scene on this site's error page:
I'm guessing the Stack Exchange design budget doesn't stretch as ...
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A z-index layering issue with the numbers in this site's theme
It's not terribly noticeable, but if you open the achievements tab, a keen-eyed observer might notice that the 1. in the Questions button is not covered up by this panel like the rest of the button.
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What is this site's design theme?
This isn't a criticism, I find the site pleasant to look at.
But just out of curiosity what is it supposed to represent?
I see the ordered numbers above the navigation links and some typewriter text ...
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The thin white line
When clicking on the inbox, or the reputation, buttons on Skeptics, a thin white vertical line appears.
OSX machine 1, using Chrome
You can see one white line going through "Citing holocaust denial ...
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Please replace the blue link colour used in Skeptics Main with a colour with higher contrast
Skeptics recently adopted a link colour that's an especially bright blue. I find it very uncomfortable to read, and I enjoy reading Skeptics questions quite a lot, so this is unfortunate. (Skeptics is ...
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Remove numbers above navlink titles in upper right corner?
The small numbers above the words in the upper right (shown in the screenshot in George Chalhoub's answer on the "Site design updates are live!" post) are confusing: they seem like they're indicating ...
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What is “No. 79378”?
The new site design1 has as part of the background image this:
It appears just to the left of Questions, Tags, Users, etc., at least for me. It appears to be a hand-written case-number or something ...
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Menu items should have larger clickable areas
In the fancy new design, the menu in the top right of the page (Questions/Tags/Users/etc) has boxes that highlight when you are on that page. It is suggestive that the whole box is a clickable target.
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Site design updates are live!
Based on the recent design pitch and your feedback, site design updates are now live. Along with the new design, we've made other less apparent changes that allow us to:
update the site's CSS to a ...
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404, Error, and Captcha Images: Suggestions Welcome
In response to Sklivvz request, we can update the 404, Error, and captcha images as part of site update, but I could use some help brainstorming images that better represent the community. Please post ...
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Site design updates are on the way!
My name is Kurtis and I'm a product designer at Stack Exchange.
Recently, as we prepared to convert the Skeptics site to a new LESS framework, we conducted a design review based on all of your ...
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Why the background image is shaded and centered?
This has to be merely with how the users will experience the site. Shaded content on the background is often used to indicate that you are on a different layer and once you are done
the information on ...
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Is there any update on the new designs?
I'm just wondering when this site will get the new modernised design, along with the new profile page.
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It's too unclear which vote arrows are selected here on Meta
These post buttons are too unclear I think, and I've gotten confused into thinking that I had upvoted a post I disliked and vice versa. It's tricky to show what the highlighted state is when the ...
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Why are the links blue?
I went to Skeptics to check out something and this is part of what I saw:
The links used to be black or some nondescript color. Now they are clearly not.
What happened?
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Can we redo the design?
The design of Skeptics Stackexchange seems rushed, messy, and dated.
Here are just a few things that have jumped to my mind since joining:
The paper background texture in meta. It looks pixilated. ...
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Change background so that site does not look like a modal dialog
The current background has an opacity which makes it look like a modal dialog. This creates confusion when using the site, as it looks like a pop-up. As well, it creates the sensation that the site is ...
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Invisible links in community ads [duplicate]
There seems to be a problem with the CSS of the community ads.
As you can see in the screenshot, the links "comment" and "stats" are invisible (probably because the link color is the same as the ...
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Word Crimes: A capitalized "A" in some really bold text
Everybody shut up
Everyone listen up
Hey, hey, hey... hey, hey, hey... hey, hey, hey
If you want to comment in the proper way
You want to split "Show 1 More Comment"
From "Add A Comment"
You need to ...
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Links are not visible in On Hold message
Links in On Hold message under posts are not visible. They are in black, as all the surrounding text.
("help center" has been clicked upon, but "edit the question" and "leave a comment" are not ...
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Links in promotion ads are black on black, thus invisible
I have just noticed this:
There are links in there, clickable and everything but not shown due to the site theme.
It should be something like this: (taken from different site in the network)
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Links in post notices are invisible
There are six links in the following image:
Except for the user name, all those links are invisible. This was reported in the past and fixed, but it seems the links are invisible again.
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Visited links in the footer have wrong color
Visited links should have the same color as non-visited links. It looks uneven like these and the different style has no usability purpose in this context.
It happens in both main and meta.
a:...
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Image upload text is broken
I've introduced a new text in the image upload dialog but it breaks here on skeptics...
Do you have spare cycles, Jin? ;-)
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Usernames in search result are bold
Usernames in search result page are bold, but on the question they aren't.
Search results
Question page
Not only they should be consistent (bold as to indicate... what?), but on a lighter background ...
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Color scheme problem with the "Favorite tag" dropdown
When trying to choose a favorite tag, the color scheme prevents me from actually seeing the selected tag:
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Tag badges are indistinguishable from normal badges
On other SE sites, tag badges usually have a distinct look, they don't look identical to the other badges, see Gaming.SE as an example here:
Here on Skeptics, they look identical:
The tag badges ...
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Not enough contrast on Skeptics logo in some places
Sometimes when our logo shows up some places without enough contrast.
Example 1 - from here.
Example 2 - from chat.
While I'm talking about our logo, this is how our logo shows up here, I think it ...
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Links are styled identically to surrounding text (many instances)
This issue was mentioned in the Election Results meta post, but I keep running into it so I think it deserves a post of its own.
It seems to be a widespread bug in the new design that links are ...
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Links in Community Bulletin should be easily identifiable
On our main site, there is no styling at all for links in the community bulletin:
On our meta site, they are merely in bold.
In neither case the expected "language" of different colour, hover effect ...
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Nomination blurbs overlap vote choices on the election page
Yet another design bug, on the election page.
To repro:
Vote for one or more candidates
Scroll the blurbs up and down (the chosen votes stay fixed on the right)
Notice the overlap between the blurbs ...
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Why did the link to community elections disappear from the main page?
Why did the link to community elections disappear from the main page but is is still on Meta?
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Link to submit moderation election nomination is invisible
As per the title, I had a hard time finding it. The link should be underlined as everywhere else.
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CAPTCHA page is puzzling
This is what appears when you hit a CAPTCHA page.
(OK there's some blurb on the right too :-) - it's confusing though!)
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Overlapping text on tag pages
Here scroll to the bottom of the page:
The word "feed" overlaps the RSS logo.
This is how it should look (biology tag):
EDIT: Now I'm seeing the overlap on every tag, even biology, which I ...
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Links in user's pages hidden
For example, see Oddthinking's profile. In the about me section, try to guess where the links are. They are invisible unless you hover over them.
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Improve formatting of headlines
The in-text headlines created by #, ##, ###, <h4> and <h5> (and turned into h1, h2 and h3 HTML tags or kept as is) are too large in the current design and are followed by too much vertical ...
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Tags are still ALL CAPS on our weekly newsletter
Tags are still ALL CAPS on our weekly newsletter:
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Links invisible on post notices
The post notices with a link look like this:
The words "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" are a link but it looks exactly like the rest of the text except on hover.
Also, see this closed question for ...
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Links on the FAQ page are not underlined
Links on the FAQ page do not appear underlined like everywhere else
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/faq
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Clicking on "unsubscribe" on the example newsletter sends you to watch 10 hours of "epic sax guy"
Scroll at the bottom of the example newsletter and click "unsubscribe". You will be sent to youtube, like so
Unsubscribe
also try clicking on:
subscriptions page on stackexchange.com.
unsubscribe ...
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The question excerpts take too much vertical space
The question excerpts shown e.g. on the list of newest questions look unusually large to me, it seems that fewer questions fit onto my screen than with other SE site designs.
I checked this using the ...
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When reviewing suggested edit, an overlay covers over the page
For this question: Does your heart skip a beat when you sneeze?
I see there is a suggested edit:
But then The page has an overlay which I cannot get through and I have no choice but to refresh the ...
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Icons on the "updates" email have inconsistent sizes
As per the title:
Icons on the "updates" email have inconsistent sizes.
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Links in preview inconsistent with final [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Design Bug: Preview of links mismatches actual links
Actual links in the question are underlined. However while in preview mode, they are not. Since with current design both ...
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Bad layout in users page (new)
A part from the really small font size (discussed here), which is a new "feature" after this bugfix, now the first two columns have tags misaligned with the last two columns.
See below the alignment ...
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