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Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#41

Post by mrspeaker »

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #11

Not sure if anyone at DDG would ever read this, but my comments on the preview are still valid. The contrast is way too low, it prefers vertical over horizontal (I, like any people, have a widescreen monitor. Displaying 3 search results by default is a little absurd), a couple other issues. It feels like a mobile interface. Oh, and there's no way to revert to the old version. The options merely change the color schem…

I don't get this contrast thing everyone is saying. My eyes are shit, and the "light grey on white" pops out fine. Any darker and it would be annoying. I really like the current color scheme.

My 'puter is a mac with retina screen - so maybe it's a monitor thing? Are there any "progressive desaturation" or "color calibration detection" tricks available to web devs in these situations?

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#42

Post by bsstoner »

hngiszmo wrote: post #32

The first time I saw that (so called) design I literally hit refresh 5 times to hopefully get that missing CSS file. Having all in just light grey and white doesn't really help finding anything quickly and why hide the path of the url onMouseOut is beyond me. DDG is my search of choice and the pain induced yesterday is not enough to swap back to google but still, not happy at all :(

Try selecting the Classic theme in the side menu. It has blue/purple links, darker description text + full urls.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#43

Post by criley2 »

SwellJoe wrote: post #36
criley2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I am not a fan of horizontal navigation that breaks scrollwheels. People get through websites with scrollwheels. Forcing people to use non-standard scrolling (left right) AND forcing them to do with click handles... I wonder if they're keeping data on how many people see the main preview and quit out versus how many actually see the other 5+ slides...

I clicked on "press" at the bottom (which happened to be at the bottom left of the screenshot on my device). Thinking it meant, "press me to continue" (which seemed a bit weird). Nope. It's their press page. So, yeah, the "what's new" page is real clunky, but I haven't, so far, been offended by the changes to their actual design. I haven't used it much since the changeover, but DDG is my primary search engine, so I'l…

I did the exact same thing. "How does this work? What am I supposed to do? Oh I'll press the press button!"

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#44

Post by edwintorok »

bsstoner wrote: post #22
edwintorok wrote: post #5

What changed since the preview was announced? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700192 The contrast on the main page is still too low.

We have implemented a bunch of the feedback from the original discussion. Detailed release notes were posted in the forum: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5747/duckduckgo-beta-refinement... https://duck.co/forum/thread/5851/duckduckgo-beta-refinement... We also added themes (in the side menu) to address some of the feedback on contrast. Classic theme reverts to the color scheme of the old site. And you can fine tune the…

Thanks, the 'dark' theme seems to have the best contrast, better than both the classic and default themes!

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#45

Post by edwintorok »

mrspeaker wrote: post #41
TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #11

Not sure if anyone at DDG would ever read this, but my comments on the preview are still valid. The contrast is way too low, it prefers vertical over horizontal (I, like any people, have a widescreen monitor. Displaying 3 search results by default is a little absurd), a couple other issues. It feels like a mobile interface. Oh, and there's no way to revert to the old version. The options merely change the color schem…

I don't get this contrast thing everyone is saying. My eyes are shit, and the "light grey on white" pops out fine. Any darker and it would be annoying. I really like the current color scheme. My 'puter is a mac with retina screen - so maybe it's a monitor thing? Are there any "progressive desaturation" or "color calibration detection" tricks available to web devs in these situations?

Maybe we just look at different parts of the UI when complaining about the contrast. The contrast for the search results is fine, the low-contrast is the 'The search engine that doesn't track you.', and the 3 buttons at the bottom. As I said in another comment the theme 'Dark' seems to fix all the contrast issues for me. How does that theme look on your monitor?

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#46

Post by edwintorok »

skierscott wrote: post #12
TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #11

Not sure if anyone at DDG would ever read this, but my comments on the preview are still valid. The contrast is way too low, it prefers vertical over horizontal (I, like any people, have a widescreen monitor. Displaying 3 search results by default is a little absurd), a couple other issues. It feels like a mobile interface. Oh, and there's no way to revert to the old version. The options merely change the color schem…

Changing the color scheme to "classic" on the side helps but doesn't completely fix the low contrast.

Try the 'dark' theme

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#47

Post by blueblob »

Spittie wrote: post #31

That's awesome! I've been using the beta for a while and it's been much better than the old site. A bunch of ideas/complains: - It's awesome that you're showing me a nice map when I search for places/address, but let's be honest, I'll probably need to load it into an online map (OSM, MapQuest, Google Maps) to get directions. So a "open in map" button would be great (yes, I can copy/paste the address and !bang it, but…

So the maps did work for you? I looked up a few places just to test it out and most of them were not found or not identified as places. I am living in New Hampshire, so perhaps they just haven't done much with NH addresses yet. I love duckduckgo and I am glad that they are making improvements but I currently can't use the map feature reliably.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#49

Post by bluthru »

mrspeaker wrote: post #41
TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #11

Not sure if anyone at DDG would ever read this, but my comments on the preview are still valid. The contrast is way too low, it prefers vertical over horizontal (I, like any people, have a widescreen monitor. Displaying 3 search results by default is a little absurd), a couple other issues. It feels like a mobile interface. Oh, and there's no way to revert to the old version. The options merely change the color schem…

I don't get this contrast thing everyone is saying. My eyes are shit, and the "light grey on white" pops out fine. Any darker and it would be annoying. I really like the current color scheme. My 'puter is a mac with retina screen - so maybe it's a monitor thing? Are there any "progressive desaturation" or "color calibration detection" tricks available to web devs in these situations?

I agree. The text color is #595959, and that's quite far from the #ffffff background.
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