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Answer by Greenonline for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
My eye-sight is rather poor.I have found that, on non-meta sites, I seem to have to squint and peer more closely at these new arrows to see if I have voted or not, because the ring highlighting just...
View ArticleAnswer by Peter - Reinstate Monica for We are graduating the updated button...
Seriously, this insignificant change should not elicit so much whining.If you go all ballistic because of a button design change (!) nobody will listen to you when it concerns more serious issues,...
View ArticleAnswer by shynur for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
For devices like Apple Vision Pro, round icons are better. If the icons have sharp corners (like before), it makes eye tracking more difficult - people will instinctively stare at the corners.Apple...
View ArticleAnswer by Edenia for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I feel like (at least some) people express such a disaffection because of a something called the "mere exposure effect".This is a psychological bias that suggests people tend to develop apreference for...
View ArticleAnswer by dpant for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
I don't like the new styling for two reasons:It doesn't fit in well with the rest of the layout where everything is, well, rectangular (search boxes, page buttons, horizontal and vertical lines,...
View ArticleAnswer by Kalamalka Kid for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
As a person who sits on advisory committees for persons with disabilities in a major Canadian city, I really have to ask; How many visually impaired people were consulted during the process of deciding...
View ArticleAnswer by Tortliena - inactive for We are graduating the updated button...
An analysis of the statisticsWhen I read lots of numbers, I like to see in which context they are used. Here's my review of those numbers, regardless of the button design(hint : I moderately dislike...
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Answer by Stelio Kontos for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
Since the Product Team wanted numbers, here's some numbers:Problem #1: How do we make a triangle more accessible to the vision-impaired users (near/far-sightedness, visual agnosia, color blindness,...
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Answer by Martin Tournoij for We are graduating the updated button styling...
What I specifically dislike about the change is the lack of contrast on many sites, for example https://scifi.stackexchange.com:The difference between the regular colour and "I already voted on this"...
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Answer by ChrisB for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
Fully aware that this seems to be a small minority opinion here, I personally like the change, even though there is always room for improvement.Most people seem to agree that the buttons are generally...
View ArticleAnswer by aepot for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
This is like:How can we improve our income?Let's make the "Buy" button bigger.I'm really not interested in this change, either as a member answering questions or an elected moderator. But still, how...
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Answer by Sasha for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
I want to acknowledge everyone who has indicated that with the new buttons it is harder to tell whether you have already voted on something or not. This is an issue that makes it harder to engage on...
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Answer by user1079505 for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
I can see the style has been modified since this was posted. Both hover and clicked button styles differ much more substantially, making it much more readable. Despite there is even more contrast than...
View ArticleAnswer by Milliways for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
If you really wanted to emphasise voting buttons WHY didn't you make them look like buttons?E.g.🔼/🔽 or ⬆️/⬇️I have never seen a computer application that uses round buttons
View ArticleAnswer by einpoklum for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
Why, I'm thrilled about our new and improved voting graphics! It's nice of you to provide some diversionary entertainment while we are experiencing the moderator strike.By the way... remind me, what is...
View ArticleAnswer by But those new buttons though.. for We are graduating the updated...
While I realize that not everyone will like every change that's introduced, at the very least a new feature should be getting mixed reactions - ideally the majority should be positive. Currently, this...
View ArticleAnswer by matt for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
This is actually a total failure of accessibility on Stack Overflow.Perhaps I am slightly color-blind, but for that very reason the new buttons are not accessible to me. I can no longer make out how I...
View ArticleAnswer by Proscionexium for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
As many other users, I find the new design of voting buttons not quite appealing. But that is not a serious problem for me.What is worse about them is that since the buttons have occupied a larger area...
View ArticleAnswer by Gugalcrom123 for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
The buttons have 100% opacity by default; they look selected when they aren't. The circles also make the arrows way too small.
View ArticleAnswer by Зонтик for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I think the update is pointless. And it will not encourage users to vote more. All that has changed is that the buttons have become larger (although they were normal size before), but they have become...
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Answer by yaya for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
The new design has a bad developer experience (dx). the developer can't focus on the content.As a developer, it attracts my eyes, but I can't focus on the real content. (it's distracting /...
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Answer by Danielillo for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
Regardless of taste, if this is the final design of the buttons, personally I see some adjustments at the perceptual level that can be improved.The contiguous circles perceptually emphasize the central...
View ArticleAnswer by Philippos for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
If this is about accessability, it could have been done better (refer to other answers).If this is about generating votes, I suggest to create a new privilege: After giving fifty votes, you are allowed...
View ArticleAnswer by andselisk for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
No, things do not always look better when you put them in a circle.The new buttons are badly designed and other answers explained why pretty well. What's more disturbing is this appears to be a...
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Answer by galacticninja for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
I prefer the new vote button arrows because they have a much more obvious contrast between voted and non-voted arrow vote buttons in dark mode (through the Dark Reader browser extension), even on meta...
View ArticleAnswer by 12944qwerty for We are graduating the updated button styling for...
I've created a userscript for anyone who may want to revert this change. Lemme know if something goes wrong with it and I'll try fixing ASAP.
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel R. Collins for We are graduating the updated button styling...
With the new buttons live across the network, in my opinion, they look awful and distracting. Some observations:As others have noted, the circles feel like added elements to parse. So whereas the...
View ArticleAnswer by CDR for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
We’ve heard your feedback from the previous posts about this change, and are not moving forward until we address them.You've moved forward. Have you really addressed them?🦆
View ArticleAnswer by JonathanZ for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I have realized that there is another state that I have been considering posts to be in: "Not (yet) engaged with". And previously, those posts had nicely greyed-out up and down arrows, which very well...
View ArticleAnswer by NoDataDumpNoContribution for We are graduating the updated button...
The change is live now and my first impression is that yes, the voting buttons are more obvious and I can understand more people using them but at the same time the score has become less obvious to...
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Answer by code for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
With the change, it feels like the buttons are more important than the actual vote count. They're humongous and the padding and roundness remind me of Material Design 3. Then somehow the vote count...
View ArticleAnswer by kaya3 for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
The text showing the numeric score is now smaller. This matters not just for readability (it's one of the most important bits of data about a post!) but also because clicking on the number shows the...
View ArticleAnswer by E_net4 for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I honestly did not have a strong opinion on this change until it was finally in effect on my devices. And now it is crystal clear that it is several magnitudes worse than what was previously in...
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Answer by CDR for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
On locked posts, the new bold font hasn't been applied. Like on this question:It still has the old font, not the strange, new one that we have now:I'd say I wanted them to be consistent, but I really...
View ArticleAnswer by Foo for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Why ask the community for feedback if you are just going to ignore it?As a protest, I will not be voting any longer until this change is reverted, or at the very least made optional.
View ArticleAnswer by Ginger for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
For those who want it, I have once again made a user style to revert the vote buttons to an approximation of the way they were before. You can find it here. If I got anything wrong, don't hesitate to...
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Answer by CDR for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Looks like the new buttons were recently released fully. They look awful; this does not look like an improvement at all....Yuck.The preview showed they were ugly, but in the implementation, they look...
View ArticleAnswer by JonathanZ for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
status-completedOn the Meta for math.se, a vote doesn't change the arrow from black to blue, you just get the pencil-thin ring, and maaayyyybe a shade of grey - hard to be sure about that.Is this...
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Answer by Devin for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Maybe if you tried a community of 100,000+ UX specialists, you would gain some surprising insights. If only such a community existed somewhere...PS: If these buttons serve as an accessibility solution,...
View ArticleAnswer by End Anti-Semitic Hate for We are graduating the updated button...
If StackExchange wants to increase voting, I encourage StackExchange to actively encourage kindness across its network (and the world) and explain why upvoting is a kind thing to do (and how...
View ArticleAnswer by Braiam for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I would like that the experiment included a measure on comments, specifically if there is more comments and if comments including content like '+/-1'. That would make also something that doesn't affect...
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Answer by wizzwizz4 for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I don't really see how this is more accessible.The new buttons become weird ovals in Zoom Text Only mode. (The old buttons behave correctly.) At 200% zoom:BeforeAfterCorrectThe new buttons become...
View ArticleAnswer by Sam Spade for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
I want to say that I think a big barrier to voting is that the place where the learning happens is not the place where the voting happens.When I go to stack overflow from google I immediately scroll...
View ArticleAnswer by Cole for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
I agree with many of the other commenters here stating that the buttons are ugly and a strict downgrade. I find it hard to see how they are somehow more accessible, given that the arrow itself is much...
View ArticleAnswer by JDB for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
I appreciate the A/B testing. If the 28% increase in voting engagement is accurate, then it sounds like a big win.However, the design is pretty "meh" in my opinion. The buttons are generic and lack...
View ArticleAnswer by Keelan for We are graduating the updated button styling for vote...
A 28% increase is not necessarily a positive outcome. Perhaps more users voted without having read the content properly.The "holistic exploration of the voting mechanism" similarly sounds like you are...
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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
UpdateThis experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network.About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general experience,...
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