Question on new NI design…

[GerdW]

Hi,

just noticed the new NI (not National Instruments anymore) design.

Well, we will get used to - even after >20 years of living with blue Nigel…

One question popped up very fast:

Why don't you use BLACK (HTML 000000) font color anymore?

Does it really has to be dark green (HTML 044123) font color?

[altenbach]

They are still in maintenance for the next few hours and I would wait until then before commenting.

I think lots of things are still shuffled around in the background.

[altenbach]

One weird thing is that if I quote when replying to a post, the quoted text shows in green while composing, but turns back to black once posted.

[altenbach]

I guess the upgrade is now complete, but there are still little bugs. For example the download button on the community edition page, the button text is not visible unless I hover over it.

(In other places the buttons switch between reversed BG/FG color (seen here) or light/dark green on hover. Probably more correct)

[RobertoBozzolo]

Too few time to get used to the new design, but I personally feel that the previous one was better in that unread discussions were more evidenced than now: a simple bold black is not so evident with respect to regular black, previous coloured pattern was far more impacting.

[RavensFan]

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@RobertoBozzolo wrote:

Too few time to get used to the new design, but I personally feel that the previous one was better in that unread discussions were more evidenced than now: a simple bold black is not so evident with respect to regular black, previous coloured pattern was far more impacting.

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I'm not a fan of the new colors either.  I find it interesting when a corporation makes a decision to change their identity to a point that they change something as basic as their corporate color.

It will take some getting used to.  But the colors on the board message titles, I wish they were actually black, instead of this very dark green.  There is just something off about it.  It is just eating at my stomach.

EDIT:  I take that back.  I did some color checking on the pixels of that font and it isn't very dark green.  It is a dark grey.  I guess the presence of green elsewhere on the page made me think it was a dark green.

But the appearance, does gnaw at my stomach, and hurt my head a bit like Altenbach says.

[Kristi_Martinez]

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@altenbach wrote:

One weird thing is that if I quote when replying to a post, the quoted text shows in green while composing, but turns back to black once posted.

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Hi altenbach,

This issue has now been resolved. We are working on the others that have been reported.

[altenbach]

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@RavensFan wrote:
EDIT:  I take that back.  I did some color checking on the pixels of that font and it isn't very dark green.  It is a dark grey.  I guess the presence of green elsewhere on the page made me think it was a dark green.

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I think certain text was quite green for a while (e.g. quoted text while composing and other). A lot of things changed around during the maintenance and it sometimes looked different on different computers. A force refresh (Ctrl+reload) often brought things back into sync.

I would say you can trust your eyes and memory if you remember green somewhere. 😄

[GerdW]

One more note on this new design…

The footer you see below every NI page now covers a whole FullHD screen in my browser (at 100% scaling). I think this size also has doubled compared to the older design.

Do you really need such a big footer?

[altenbach]

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@GerdW wrote:

The footer you see below every NI page now covers a whole FullHD screen in my browser (at 100% scaling). I think this size also has doubled compared to the older design.

Do you really need such a big footer?

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It's all optimized for touch screens, phones and tablets. Very inclusive, even if you resemble Andre the Giant in terms of finger size.

(Just wait until the LabVIEW diagram gets "optimized" with a minimum wire distance of 1 cm (just kidding!))