Questions tagged [design]
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User Experience 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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UI Wireframe editor requires Flash, which is dead [duplicate]
There is already a discussion question about this:
What are the plans to support wireframes after flash player is no longer available?
but since Flash is end-of-life and no major browser supports ...
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Enable Stack Snippets on UX
Stack Snippets are an awesome tool for demonstrating HTML/CSS/JS problems and solutions, and are easier than outsourcing to JS Fiddle. They're widely used on Stack Overflow. However, this site does ...
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Arrow is too low
There used to be an arrow showing what section you are in. The earliest design post) shows it pretty clearly in this image under "Questions":
Another more recent example of the correct behavior can ...
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Mobile App UX Logo Side Menu Bad Contrast
The shade of blue used for the menu does not provide a clear contrast with the UXSE logo (need to check WCAG colour contrast requirements). It is probably advisable to review the style guide for ...
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Bottom-aligned header contents are bugging me
The new updates are probably still rolling out for the SE sites but I noticed this issue only on UX StackExchange.
The second header has the logo and the navigation items aligned to the bottom which ...
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The accept answer & favourite button are bugging my user experience
Edit: Bump
As you may be able to see in the above image the accept answer button is too far to the right, the active accept answer button (the green one) is perfectly fine.
The reason for this is ...
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Confusing position for the buttons
Is it a reason to have the same style for the buttons on a page? Also, it is the best position of the buttons in the section where you can add comments and answers?
Maybe is just me, but I always ...
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I can't tell the difference between the clicked and unclicked link colours in "hot questions"
These colours for clicked and unclicked links are rather similar-looking shades of blue, on the main UX stackexchange page at least. I have to look very carefully to tell the difference. This is not ...
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What's the story behind the star theme?
I find the site's theme to be pleasing to the eye.
However, just out of curiosity, what's up with the star theme? Where did that come from?
There's a star embedded in the "UX" logo, and the badges ...
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The "impact" helpbox is hidden under the navbar [duplicate]
As said in the title:
I don't think it happens on other Stack Exchange websites (though I didn't checked everywhere).
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Why does this site (non-meta part) use light blue link text on a white background?
Isn't the light blue text on white background of this site (non-meta part) difficult to read? Not enough light/dark contrast, IMO.
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UX failures on UX
I just consider that the UX site has UX failures:
The UI wireframe icon is similar to the image icon. Sometimes I want to post an image and I click the wireframe icon
The wireframe dialog has an icon ...
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CSS bug when hovering "people reached" in profile [duplicate]
Tried to fix it myself but didn't manage to
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Standard Stack Exchange tour: confusing presentation of information?
Recently I noted on meta.stackexchange.com asking for a better way to find information about each site's scope. Knowing what questions would or would not be appropriate for a specific site seems very ...
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Why hand cursor is used for navigational elements?
According to this, https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/36874/52877
Hand cursor is used only for navigational purpose.
In case of
While hovering on action element (i.e. help), we can see hand cursor
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"People reached" tooltip covered by navigation header
I was browsing my profile page on the main site, and noticed that the header is overlaying the popup of the "people reached" counter. This does not happen in other websites (but also happens on the ...
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Speaking of UserExperience
I occasionally browse this site, but it wasn't until today that I was encouraged to create an account--and only to post on the meta.
As many of you know, when certain links are pasted into ...
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Should badge classes be described by shape as well as colour?
I've just been visiting math.stackexchange.com where they use a range of shapes to signify badge class as well as colour.
This makes the differences much easier to see and is generally more ...
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How is the user experience of the new profile page being measured?
I don't mind the new look and feel of the new user profile page, and there were a lot of discussions about how it should be designed plus the rationale behind design decisions.
I wonder how then, ...
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Updates to the site
My name is Kurtis and I'm a designer with Stack Exchange. You may have noticed some updates to the design of your site. The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework. ...
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Meta top bar text color inconsistency
I noticed on Meta.UX the user's rep and badge count (and the mod diamond) aren't in the standard "link color" like the other top bar links. Compare the main site to the meta site and you'll see:
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Design for UX.SE
I'm Jin, the designer for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit ...
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Why doesn't UX.SE have much drawing on the header?
I notice that the header of this site (you can see it for yourself) only has plain blue. Why doesn't it contain some drawing?
Some other headers of other Stack Exchange sites:
Disclaimer: I have ...
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Tag links in Meta have visited colors
Tags don't usually have visited colors (a:visited) on the SE network but on UX Meta they do (but not UX's main site). You can see this below; the visited specific-question tag has differently colored ...
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In StackExchange, how do I comment on other people's answers?
I cannot figure this out. I am trying to comment on answers and there is no option to. I have to admit, I don't think the UX design of stack exchange is very intuitive...
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Level 1 headers in profile description appear cluttered
I recently updated my Stack Exchange profile to include a link to my newly created Area 51 proposal Scientific Imagination. I included a sample question from the proposal as a level 1 header. It looks ...
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Confusing Pagination Buttons
Isn't this a bit confusing?
I mean button "next" look like label and it's button while "Per page" looks like button and it's label. What do you think?
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Move moderator comment banners?
I'm seeing a few answers with what appears to be a special comment appended, like here.
It strikes me that such a comment banner would be better placed between the answer and any following comments, ...
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Question score wraps unexpectedly when greater than 99 in related questions list
When a question has a score of over 99, it looks wrong in Safari v7.0.3 on OS X when presented in the related/linked questions list in the sidebar:
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This issue can be relatively successfully solved ...
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Left aligned container on Chrome (Windows)
Since several days, the container of ux stackexchange is left aligned :
After some inspections, I figured out that the property "overflow: auto;" on "#content" is causing this issue. I simply removed ...
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SE: User Experience - appropriate for interface design review?
I'm a web developer and interface designer, and for the improvement of my development structure and practice, I can go to SE's Code Review. However, even more than I focus on the quality of back-end ...
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Why is the UI is different across the different SE websites?
I am on several SE websites and I am wondering why the UI differs?
In my opinion, this is a little bit disturbing!
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Accessibility not met?
Here is what the site looks like using the "Text Only" tool in Chrome:
Missing alternate text and navigation contrast.
Can this be fixed?
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Flow between Chat and SE is confusing
Clicking on "chat" from the StackExchange dropdown menu (top left corner) loads the chat flow within the page.
Clicking on "ux.stackexchange.com" in the chat room in the paragraph on the top right ...
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Should links be underlined?
I know Google has shifted away from underlined links except on hover which is fine however when links are buried within a paragraph of text, it may be difficult to discern especially with Colour Blind ...
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Questions tab options are confusing
The options under the Questions tab are a mix of sort options and filter options. Newest, Votes and Active sort the questions by those attributes and display ALL questions (thus making the label to ...
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Format notices differently from blockquotes
Pretty straight-forward.
An edit notice prepended to a post:
A blockquote in the same thread:
To help quickly distinguish between the two better (and make sure people actually see the notice), the ...
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The favourite question icon conveys a wrong message?
I saw this question favorited four times and my intuitive response was that four people marked it as something bad. It's because of the "danger like" color of the star.
Here's my suggestion; make the ...
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Profile answers list – large vote count CSS bug
There's a CSS rule for .answer-votes.large that is applied to answers whose vote total is somewhere above 34. That rule applies a padding-top and padding-bottom property that ruins the vertical ...
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Profile Image Bug - iPhone 5s
I just randomly opened my profile tab, and saw this (on iPhone 5s):
What is going on?
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Is there a stand-alone version of the ux.stackexchange wireframe editor?
Just saw the wysiwyg wireframe editor in ux.stackexchange.com and I love it. Just the right amount of simplicity & capability.
Does this exist as a stand-alone site? I'd love to be able to ...
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Issue with similar questions list when asking a question
When asking a new question on the site, a list of similar questions is displayed on the right. When scrolling down, this list is fixed and goes above the footer text as in the screenshot below (using ...
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The menubar for the text edit box is inconsistent across SE sites - does it matter?
"Above the text entry box where I type this question is a menu bar. On that bar there is a chain icon for "Hyperlink". On some of the other stack exchange sites the icon is a globe with an arrow.
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Inconsistency in registering and logging in labels
Why are the labels for registering and signing up using different terminology?
Sign up
Log in
Is there are problem with using the label Sign in ?
One argument can be it is to avoid confusion, but,...
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Why no love for UX community bulletin?
Can we at-least have some background color to highlight that it exists? I feel it will be a good start to divert traffic of regular users to the meta. Right now, it is quite hidden and can easily be ...
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Formatting issue in Badge awardee list
The names and questions are getting clipped in the awardee page of the badges section. Is there any issue with displaying multiline questions?
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UX StackExchange Bottom Notice poor link color contrast
It bugs me that the "bottom-notice" links on the UX pages have such poor contrast. The color contrast of #E8BF6C against a #FFFFFF background is 1.74:1.
WCAG 2.0's luminosity contrast algorithm ...
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Make font of user-typed text in the search boxes on the main and meta sites black
Currently, the text is very light gray which makes it hard to read. Think it should be black.
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