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Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by timdiggerm »

hueving wrote: post #289
teaneedz wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the camp that actually likes the new look. It conveys a modern minimalist view while the extras just get out of your way. I've been mostly against flat design for a number of reasons but IMO, you've achieved a great design. I really like the minimalism of the hamburger button. Again, everything just gets out of your way. Perhaps enlarging the font-size of the search result snippets might help with the contrast…

>it conveys a modern design. That's a terrible reason to pick a design. If you have no justification for a design other than 'lots of other new websites do this', then you have no justification at all... unless your purpose is to blend in and be forgotten.

Ah, but an old design conveys amateur quality, which does not compete well in people's minds with Google, etc.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by edwintorok »

j4kp07 wrote: post #226
yegg wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! Our current version also has a fixed header, and that can be turned off in the settings, which we plan to make work in this next version as well. Noted on contrast. We will look into it more -- that's exactly the kind of feedback we were hoping to get.

FWIW...and no disrespect meant, but I hope DDG does not follow this advice. Firstly, this is a developer. So he/she is not the key demographic you are targeting. Developers and the like don't understand that John Doe has no idea what "contrast" is or which button turns it down/up. Please note all of the references to "me" and "my" and his perfect color-correct 20/20 vision in his feedback.

If it is hard to read for someone who is young and with perfect vision, how do you expect that someone with less than perfect vision / older / with worse monitors will be able to read it?

There are W3C standards for accessibility for a reason, and widely used sites should follow them.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by MrGando »

ugexe wrote: post #205

Something that has bothered me in the old version as well as this version is the wiki-summary/product/images/videos header. Often times (especially when im using a VPN) the search results load before whatever needs to be loaded in the header, so I will go to click a result and then the header expands into my click. This means I go to a page I did not intend. It needs to be a fixed size or its size needs to be determi…

I totally hate that Header too.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by Gallefray »

jasomill wrote: post #273
reledi wrote: post #200

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Regarding the contrast, this is worth a read: http://contrastrebellion.com

Funny that a page about Web usability features a design that's sufficiently counterintuitive (or just plain annoying to smoothly scroll through) that the designers felt the need to add site-specific navigation controls and "click here or press space to scroll down" help text to the page. Presumably these are the same designers who feel a "push" sign next to a nonfunctional handle is a good design for the hardware on…

I second this. In addition, who on earth thinks that Black on vomit-coloured Yellow is easy to read? I actually had a harder time reading that than HN's website.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by idealform01 »

I really like the new visual design, slick work!

One issue I have is with the infinite scrolling of the results. When at the bottom of the page I would like to know how many more results there are so I am not flying blind until I randomly get to the end of the results. Not aware of any formal studies to support this just opinion :)

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by yegg »

CmdrKrool wrote: post #241

I can't turn off the infinite scroll. I've set "Auto-load" in the settings to Off. But when I scroll to the end of the page new links still get appended automatically. This also happens on the current version DDG as well. Am I misunderstanding this option?

What browser/OS?
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