Discord's new redesign
Please, Discord devs, notice the reactions to the new redesign.
For example, this comment by "fellowish" in Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/n9s414/its_like_a_4_year_old_was_in_charge_of/)
Just to be clear, as a UX systems designer, this is literally the holy grail of all things shit in UX design:
Saturated dark colors against dark backgrounds are hard to read
White mentions lack visual clarity and are incredibly harmful to individuals with visual impairment
Color redesign lacks contrast and are harmful for individuals who are colorblind and/or visually impaired
Elements lack unity
Logo redesign looks like timmy from elementary school went into ms paint and used the text tool for the first time
saturated, mid-value colors covering large fields are harmful to end-users
text contrast with new colors fails the WCAG test
and even more
I am actually completely baffled at what they were hoping to accomplish here, considering everything they are planning to do completely violates all UX design aspects. It is harmful to the visually impaired, terrible for the end-user due to eye strain, and completely violates all mechanisms already put in place to prevent visual clutter.
They were already doing so well. That's what's so surprising. What changed in management that caused these multiple catastrophic design blunders to occur all at the same time??
Me, as well as thousands of people couldn't agree more with this and the many other posts about the change. I have been using Discord since 2016 and always was very pleased with the updates. They offered improvements to Discord without altering its essence, but this one? This one not... Don't fall into the trends of oversimplified logos, don't change your beautiful pallete, don't fix what is not broken.
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+1
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Please.
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The GUI just feels off all of a sudden.
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yeah. please change it back to the way it originally looked
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Please at least give an option to change it back
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This update isn't the first. I've been bothered by updates making the interface less usable and the text less easy to read for at least a year now.
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It’s honestly already looking terrible with the small additions, please just keep it like this, the new design will look even worse
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based
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I hope Discord has a future for us to keep the old design & not set it to auto for everyone .-.
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Looking for way to get good (OLD) UI, or alternative to discord.
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Please devs, i haven't seen worse design in years... just bring the good design back
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Completely agree.
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I need this, I am having issues with the new font especially.
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There is still light mode, right? You can use that if you cant manage the settings to fit you.
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yeah
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