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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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UX StackExchange logo is hard to see in the SE profile pages (accounts tab)
The logo is really low contrast compared to elsewhere on UX, where the monochrome logo is used or the darker blue of the favicon.
See here for a live example.
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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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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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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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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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UX Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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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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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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Form buttons and pagination do not have a hover state?
I noticed that the form buttons like 'Post Your Question' do not have a hover state and neither does the pagination links.
Is this purposeful?
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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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Why does 'Per Page' look like a button on our StackExchange interface?
5 15 50 per page
Looks like 4 buttons to me. I accidentally clicked 'per page' and nothing happened.
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UX.SE Site Doesn't Display Well In Network Chat Rooms
I'm referring to the 'onebox' that occurs when you post the URL of a stackexchange site into one of the chatrooms on the network. As most of these rooms have a light background, the UX onebox is ...
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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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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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Favorite icon VS Badge icon
I find the icons for badges too similar to the icon for favorite questions. I remember that this confused me when learning to find my way around the page and what the badge are.
Here is the favorite ...
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UX.SE logo is almost impossible to see in SE Data Explorer
This seems to have been addressed in different questions about the mobile version, profile pages, and chat, but the logo is white on white in the SE Data Explorer.
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Use non-breaking spaces in timestamps to prevent awkward wrapping
The timestamp in the comments list (at least) can wrap awkwardly making it difficult to read:
Since the whole timestamp is always relatively short (i.e. three words), and once it wraps it already ...
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"Similar questions" scrolls down and covers other links
"Similar questions" should not move with the scrolling.
I guess it is also true for other stackechange sites. I have asked a question. FF 11.0, win 7.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hover over icons behavior
Since this SE site is all about user experience, wouldn't it be a good idea to set the example for other SE sites and add hover animations to the icons as discussed in this question and its answer?
I'...
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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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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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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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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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Favorite Tag color coding on UX.Stackexchange
I have been using SO.SE for sometime now but recently started using UX.SE.
We have an option to set favorite tags and those tags appear marked in different color in the view and its easy to pick up ...
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