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Who made the webdesign of User Experience?
My impression about the webdesign of User Experience is brilliant. The header section with the great logo and the intense blue background meeting the beige Ask Question button. The design of tags all ...
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Why do links use very similar colours for :visited, :hover and regular links?
When scanning the main page, I find it a little difficult to differentiate between visited links and regular links. I can see the difference but it always catches me off guard as visited links seem to ...
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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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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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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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Similar questions in sidebar overlay rest of page when scrolling [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Similar questions” scrolls down and covers other links
I ran into this today when asking a question on UX.SE. What I was seeing was that the similar questions that ...
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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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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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“Are you a Human” message misaligned
Look at our Captcha page
Now look at Meta.stackoverflow.com:
The widths of the Captcha/image container and the Are you a human being? message combined are just a bit wider than the containing ...
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UX icon in Stack Exchange All Sites is hard to read
Was looking for the UX bubble on Stack Exchange's All Sites page. Couldn't find the icon. Well, here's your problem:
It's even more invisible in context.It's like UX StackExchange logo is hard to ...
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The “you don't have full edit privileges” message is very unnoticeable
Honestly, I hadn't even realized it was there. The only reason I noticed it was because I though "hey, I don't think I have edit privileges yet" and looked for it. It's just plain text up at the top, ...
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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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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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User info improperly styled on user profile
This is your user profile:
This is your user profile on UX:
Any questions?
This started happening today/yesterday best I can tell, the profile page on UX has been fine for months but suddenly ...
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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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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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“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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The font color of hyperlinks on ux meta is hard to read
The font color of hyperlinks, especially unvisited hyperlinks, on UX meta (yellow on a white background) is very hard to read. Maybe we could add more contrast?
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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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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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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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UX Stack Exchange logo is extremely hard to see in the mobile version header
This is a similar issue to the one affecting the SE profile pages, but affects the mobile version of the website.
This fails the WCAG contrast checking algorithm, which recommends that the contrast ...
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Can we adjust the visibility of the G+ sharing icon? [closed]
Since the G+ icon has been added to the small column of share icons, I find myself unable to read a question without looking at it at least once or twice. The color is so unlike everything else on ...
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Why the fonts here are in bold?
Joined UX just a while back, impressed by the questions being asked here and the answers to them.
I bit curious to know the reason behind choosing the fontface in bold for Q&A in ...
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Missing top padding on question pages
The top padding of the content area has vanished in Chrome 15, causing the text to be stuck up against the border separating it from the title.
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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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When does our SE ad update to reflect our full theme?
I don't know if this is intentional or not, but our SE "ad" (below) is still styled in the beta site "sketchy" theme, even though the site has it's full theme.
Full released sites have ads styled ...
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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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Has the change to the non-beta theme improved traffic to the site?
One of the reasons stated for giving the site it's public theme early was to help increase the traffic to the site.
See the question where Jin introduced the design.
Has there been an improvement ...
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UX StackExchange logo is invisible in chat
The UX StackExchange logo is white-on-white in the chat room:
/cc @Jin
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Using the mousewheel to scroll while over the content area causes weird behaviour [closed]
On this page: What can we learn from this reddit thread?, moving the mouse over the main question area and using the mousewheel to scroll doesn't scroll the page, but instead just the content frame. ...
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Sidebar drops beneath main content area
In Google Chrome 11.0.696.71 on Windows Vista, the following happens when viewing What can we learn from this reddit thread?:
The sidebar is dropping beneath the content area. I imagine this is ...
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Adjust the visual weight of headers in answers to be stronger than that of bold text
Headers in answers aren't bold, which is unbalancing the visual perception that they're more important than mere bold text. Example below:
Here's a header
Here's a block of text.
Here's some bold ...
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How to make Tag wiki info more discoverable.
I would like tag wiki info content to be more discoverable. At the moment there is no way to know from the tags page which if any tags have info articles attached.
UI Tweak needed?
Do we need a ...
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The meta favicon for UX is not grayscale
This is a teeny tiny little bug, but all the other meta sites seem to have a grayscale version of the favicon. UX Meta, on the other hand, shares the same as the main site.
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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?
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.main-question-link:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
Please add an underline to the main question link/title on hover. I use it to refresh a question and it's not as clearly clickable without it.
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Should “Your Reputation” be placed more prominently?
I had a hard time finding "Your Reputation" on the Privileges page. I suppose that's due to it's position on the right column. The right column might be interpreted as non important information. I was ...
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Sidebar all messed up
Under the couple browsers I happen to have, the sidebar with the Ad look severely horked up with text running into the ad and/or the chat thing. Happened after forced refreshes, and in any case in ...
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All Privileges screen CSS bug
There seems to be a bug on the all privileges screen. Css float problem?
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Unnecessary space between list items
Maybe this is by design, but
I don't think
there needs to be
so much space
between list items.
Jin, would you consider removing the margin-bottom?
.post-text ul li, .post-text ol li { ...
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New Design Launched
Hi all,
As you can see, the new design is now live. Thank you for your feedback. We have also updated the new look to UX.se's twitter account and its chatroom. I hope the new design will help to ...
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Inbox notification number-badge on top of “StackExchange” [closed]
It's also off-place here in meta.
I'm on Chrome 10.0.648.205 and Mac OS X 10.6.7
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Design for UX.se
Hi all. 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 ...
