Win-Central website UI/UX refinements.

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Hi WinCentral Team.

it would be great if you will fix the date position of forum posts ASAP.
Check out the attached-image.

 

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Hello !

It would be nice if your team will check the dark theme mode colors(esp. text colors) again.


#tip : Also check the forum post Stats which are still in dark color like the image above.

 

[xFalk]

Just came on site and was presented with the new design. My initial thoughts...

1. That homepage header is huge. I like big but that is HUGE. 4 boxes take up almost half of my screen at 1366x768 resolution.

2. I don't like that I can't tell if I am logged in unless I use the hamburger. And then it's just a small amount of text in a light shade of gray that is barely visible.

3. Not sure what that juicer looking icon on the top right of the story pages is supposed to represent or do but it just goes to a "server not found" page.

 

[anon(10237065)]

Just came on site and was presented with the new design. My initial thoughts...
2. I don't like that I can't tell if I am logged in unless I use the hamburger. And then it's just a small amount of text in a light shade of gray that is barely visible.

Actually the question is, if it should have the typical Hamburger on desktops. I got confused thinking there's an error and I've got a mobile site on a big screen!

Anyway one thing is missing - a link to Forum. I don't know if I'm blind, but I can't see a link. There's a Forum menu with New Posts, Trending discussions etc. but I'd prefer there a proper link to the Forum main page too.

 

[Awhispersecho]

I don't like the new design at all. There needs to be a dedicated Forum link. There needs to be a way to see if you are logged in and other options other than using a hamburger menu, which by the way is awful. Hamburger menus are horrible on the phone and the last thing I want is to have to use them on the desktop. The Windowscentral logo is looks like a tiny 8-bit game system logo in the upper left and the actual forums and and subject matter of the site only fill roughly a third of the page. Not to mention my mouse button is a constantly spinning circle as if the site is still trying to load something.

This is a terrible layout and a terrible redesign. I'm starting to think you guys have people from MS working for you because just let MS, every time you update something, it gets worse for the consumers. Of course this could all be related to Edge because it seems Edge doesn't work well with websites. Imagine that.

 

[xFalk]

I wanted to mention the terrible looking Windows Central logo but I couldn't figure out how to explain it. The 8-bit comparison hits the nail on the head.

 

[Dennis Bakker]

I really don't like the new UI. Very ugly font, huge header and indeed a C64-like logo.

Add the over 25 trackers, ads, analytics which are slowing the site really down. I use Ghostery for a long time now and the site loads almost immediately that way, but I rather don't use Ghostery, but the site forces me to.

 

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Everything wrong with latest UI/UX

I wonder how it could be done, even i had restarted my phone.
In the attached images of mobile website, it(only this website) has automatically made free space.
In header, you can see the hidden search box which cannot be seen till you pressed search button on mobile. I know this can be done on pc via debugger but I'm using Edge browser.

Have a look on these images-








Is that happened with your Windows 10 Phone because other mobile OS showing an ad instead of vacant space !

 

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Hi, WinCen Team!
There are still some bugs on Website,

1. Unable to 'Reply' on comments section. After clicking 'Reply' button, you can see buggy screen of code.
   
2. Longer Trending topic name makes the bar out of box(Overflowing of bar-width).
   
3. Home(Hamburger) button still not working on Home, Articles page.

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