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#4214 The new story summary title bar is really bad
The new story summary boxes look awful. I specifically mean the "improved" title bar with that red stripe, distracting plusminus buttons, irrelevant category name and scaled down font.
You guys have commited sin against the two ultimate GUI design principles:
1) DRY -- dont repeat youself
2) less is more
First of all, there is no need to push in the category title. It is just noise since there is an image relating to category just next to the summary. It is the STORY TITLE every slashdotter is after when they are scanning the first page. And the number of comments. So... emphasize the title but not too much. Do not hide the title inside a package of visual noise and do not scale it down and do not clutter it with category names or button. If you do not believe me how important a title is, go check out Google search results.
Secondly, if you really want to put in DIGG style voting (which is redundant because of comments), then do it in an unobtrusive way. Stop with the "LOOK AT THIS NEW FEATURE, I MADE THIS" attitude. It really pisses people of. It is rude.
A picture says more than a thousand words. Just take a look at the sample I included. Please.
First story is good style, others are bad
Agree 100% with what was said (maybe not how it was said :)
Sorry about the aggressive tone but I was really, really disappointed with what the developers have done to the new UI. After the new commenting system was activated, I began to wonder if Slashdot developers also practice what they preach. Now this. *sigh*
Sorry about the aggressive tone but I was really, really disappointed with what the developers have done to the new UI. After the new commenting system was activated, I began to wonder if Slashdot developers also practice what they preach. Now this. *sigh*