Another Unsolicited HN Redesign
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Another Unsolicited HN Redesign
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#2The article titles are way too light imo.
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#3The header buttons are too big for my taste. I prefer economy of screen space and that space should be going to articles, not buttons.
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#4The article titles are way too light imo.
+1. LC;DR > http://www.contrastrebellion.com/
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#5Why not make a Stylish theme out of it? If you haven't already done so that is.
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#6My main issue with HN is that the comments link is a pain on touch devices. This redesign seems to make that link even smaller. Much of the value of HN lies in the amazing comments, so I would prefer that link to get almost equal prominence to the actual article.
I also don't understand how almost unreadably pale article titles make the page more usable.
To me this redesign is another case of making it prettier rather than more usable.
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#7The article titles are way too light imo.
Yeah, this design would be way hard on my eyes.
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#8I like that you've been relatively conservative with the redesign and have clearly relied on established convention so that existing users can carry over their existing experience into the new UI.
I think it could use another fine-grained pass over each UI element to evaluate how important it might be to the user and whether the contrast/size/color/prominence of the element matches your expected prioritization.
For example, the numbers along the side are large and high-contrast, but are pretty trivial for people browsing articles (ordering is meaningful, but specific numbering isn't). On the other hand, commenting is a big part of HN, but is a very small and low-contrast part of the mockup, with no visual indication of how to access the comments.
I'd also have another pass at the color choices - white on orange and mid-gray on mid-gray can be pretty difficult to scan.
Great thinking on the filtering and top-level organization, though. There's some good stuff in there
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#9The article titles are way too light imo.
Title color agreement aside, I feel the login form contrasts too much with the orange (and the blue forgotten password link is out of nowhere, as well). I can see why the designer would try to stick that general hue, but the reason that the use of the color currently works as it stands is because the top bar is very thin and provides the obvious functionality that it needs to. It isn't their fault though necessarily as orange is a tough color to work with.
Beyond that, the larger text for titles is nice if only as it makes scanning through them easier. Simply darkening them to a black or near-black would make for a large improvement alone.
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#10I like the modern look, but I actually think the UX suffers.
In your design, the focus is on the up vote arrow. I use HN for content discovery. So I think content is taking a second seat against up-voting in your design.