Timeline for Is the Meta top bar, resembling Google's design, distinctive enough?
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 19, 2017 at 2:09 | comment | added | n611x007 | -1 -ers care to explain? anyone? :) | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 19, 2013 at 8:53 | comment | added | Jason C | @TimPost Check out Travis J's suggested look below. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 23:38 | answer | added | Travis J | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 22:37 | comment | added | Travis J | @DeerHunter - Your tablet doesn't let you use a mouse?! | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 11:01 | history | edited | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 10:33 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | The new UI is UGLY. Hovering a mouse is not possible on a tablet. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 8:29 | history | edited | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 8:26 | comment | added | Benjol | @RobertHarvey, but everything (including your comment) seems to indicate that it will have. I'm disagreeing with your implying that the top bar is not a part of the site's theme - specifically in the case of Programmers, where it is evidently an integral part of the whiteboard. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 7:56 | history | edited | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 6:09 | comment | added | user102937 | @Benjol: Hm? Programmers doesn't have the black bar yet. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 5:46 | comment | added | Benjol | @RobertHarvey, not on Programmers it ain't. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 5:45 | comment | added | Benjol | @naxa, downvotes are probably because this a sort-of a duplicate. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 4:32 | comment | added | Caffeinated | What I will say about th enew design is that a rollover functionality may be the best compromise between "bring back 'Main' link" and "just deal wiith 1 extra click". it seems like you should be able to just roll to the blue-white logo and have it immediately open up | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 4:15 | comment | added | user50049 | Google implemented a top bar because they have lots of products tied to one account, we have lots of sites that affect and and need to motivate one account. There is a subtle, but immense difference there both in motivation and implementation. To be clear, we've had a top bar for a very long time, it just hasn't been anywhere close to as functional as we wanted when it comes to our needs and goals. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 3:31 | answer | added | Jason C | timeline score: 17 | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 3:21 | comment | added | Caffeinated |
BTW if anyone misses the old google black-bar, it's here google.com/?noj=1 - just tag on ?noj=1
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 3:16 | answer | added | Caffeinated | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:46 | comment | added | n611x007 | @waiwai933 ah I see, it's different from SO then. Thanks for answering, now I know! | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:46 | comment | added | n611x007 | @animuson another thing I now know I miss is the "red glow" (or colored) circle for displaying inbox updates. It didn't look like google or facebook or microsoft. It was a SE-only thing. I think the "red glow" was more distinctive. Personally, for me, keeping the glow would feel like continuity, tradition, past and identity, even if new buttons are different. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:45 | comment | added | waiwai933 | @naxa Downvotes on meta don't necessarily mean that question is bad, just that the premise of the question is disagreed with (i.e. we don't see this as a problem). | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:43 | comment | added | n611x007 | @animuson interesting points. Maybe it could be boiled down to the style of the gray icons. They are not distinctive in themselves either but with this darky bar it just makes it feel like google somehow. Well, anyway, I didn't meant to say that this is update is wrong work or anything like that. What I thought was it'd be nice to raise a question to address the named concerns. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:41 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | It doesn't "look like Google" - there were probably thousands of networks that used a similar black bar before Google ever adopted it. It's also not about estsblishing an identity - that's what the logo is for. It's about creating a bar that looks the same everywhere but doesn't clash too much with the specific themes. You don't really have many options when it comes to globally themed top bars. You're kind of stuck with black or white, and personally I think black is a better choice. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:40 | comment | added | n611x007 | downvoters, could you explain how can I improve my question? :) (apart from it being a terrible bad idea to start with that cannot possible be helped even with reindeers and santa claus:).) | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:37 | comment | added | n611x007 | @Bart Hard to say why distinctivity is important but you just feel it is. When you see how giants try to "monopolise" single colors, you wonder if there is a value to distinctivity. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:34 | comment | added | n611x007 | @Bart Personally the wide logo already used in the old top bar, and the functionality it provided, made it practical and functional already for me. I personally like the addition that I can view my reputation changes easily but that's also a very different from suddenly adopting a new style. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:23 | comment | added | n611x007 | @RobertHarvey not saying that the top bar would rip the subsites of their identity in being part of the StackExchange network. Instead, my concern is whether the top-bar gives any or enough identity to the SE network at all. The concern is that it's looking similar to the top bar of google. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:22 | comment | added | Bart | Why does it need to be distinctive? (not that I'm saying it isn't) How about we give it some time and see if it's practical and functional first? | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | n611x007 | @animuson I understood this idea even with google. On the other hand, one thing is being dark, and another thing is using similar grey icons, and google-style "bubbles". Apart from all that: whether they are of the same color or not or whether this is even a good idea is not my question. My question is if the topbar design is distinctive enough for giving the site (edit) or the network an identity. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | user102937 | The identity of each site is established by its own theme. The top bar is merely placed over the top of that theme. While the bar will look the same on every site, that's... kinda the whole point; each site will still get to keep its own theme, below that. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:16 | history | edited | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:15 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | The black bar is part of the Stack Exchange global UI initiative. The point is that no matter which site you're on, the primary interface always looks the same. That's why all the form buttons were changed to black. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:12 | comment | added | Michael Liu | I dislike the black bar because the text within it is hard to read, and I'm glad Google got rid of it. Now I'm dismayed that SO is considering adopting it. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 23:10 | history | asked | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |