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Thread poster: Eli Knutsen
Eli Knutsen
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Nov 28, 2022

The new design is so full of contrasts that it makes my eyes tired from using the page. I switched back to the old design today. It is so much more 'collected' and calmer to look at. It makes it much easier to find what you need. As a web designer, I do however question the choice of colours behind the text. Why not change to a light grey instead of the yellow. The yellow makes it look a bit outdated.

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Tom in London
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Yeoow Nov 28, 2022

Eli Knutsen wrote:

The new design is so full of contrasts that it makes my eyes tired from using the page. I switched back to the old design today. It is so much more 'collected' and calmer to look at. It makes it much easier to find what you need. As a web designer, I do however question the choice of colours behind the text. Why not change to a light grey instead of the yellow. The yellow makes it look a bit outdated.


I agree about the yellow - it was always wrong.
 
Cameron Santiago
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Proz new design Nov 28, 2022

Eli Knutsen wrote:

The new design is so full of contrasts that it makes my eyes tired from using the page. I switched back to the old design today. It is so much more 'collected' and calmer to look at. It makes it much easier to find what you need. As a web designer, I do however question the choice of colours behind the text. Why not change to a light grey instead of the yellow. The yellow makes it look a bit outdated.

I totally agree with you. Light grey put an amazing look to it instead of yellow.
 
Lucia Leszinsky
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What service or page are you specifically referring to? Nov 28, 2022

Hello Eli,

Eli Knutsen wrote:

The new design is so full of contrasts that it makes my eyes tired from using the page. I switched back to the old design today. It is so much more 'collected' and calmer to look at. It makes it much easier to find what you need. As a web designer, I do however question the choice of colours behind the text. Why not change to a light grey instead of the yellow. The yellow makes it look a bit outdated.


Are you referring to the new KudoZ design released in 2020? If so, please feel free to post feedback and suggestions for improvement on the related thread: https://www.proz.com/topic/340079

If you are referring to some other page or area, please let us know. Thanks!

Lucia
 
Samuel Murray
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Yellow is good Nov 28, 2022

Eli Knutsen wrote:
Why not change to a light grey instead of the yellow. The yellow makes it look a bit outdated.

As a user, I don't care about whether something "looks old" or "looks new", but rather whether it is a pleasure to use. The black text on yellow background is actually much easier to read than black text on e.g. grey background would have been. To achieve the same legibility, if the background was grey, the text would have to be made thicker.

That said, #fafafa does look somewhat more classy... but it's less easy on the eye if you stare at it for a period of time:

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Hans Lenting
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Black & yellow Nov 28, 2022

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Philip Lees
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Vote of thanks Nov 29, 2022

Samuel Murray wrote:

The black text on yellow background is actually much easier to read than black text on e.g. grey background would have been.


I agree. We should give the ProZ site managers a vote of thanks for leaving the old version accessible, and I hope they will continue to do so, so that I can continue to use it. "Oldie but goldie," as they say.

The worst is the modern tendency to use "grey on grey" as the default colour combination for blocks of text, making them barely legible. These old eyes struggle with that kind of thing. (Yes, I know there's a way around that.)

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