While I love iterations and improving on design, I must say, it is much more simple, but very hard to read.

My eyes do not know where to focus on the overall design, the typeface is quite small and even smaller on the 'upvote/downvote/comment' section, and in general not the type thats easy on the eyes (no pun intended).

The type on the detailed view of a post is much easier, bigger and I can read it even if I'm sitting further away from my screen which is great and something that used to exist on DN previous to the change.

I think if you gave all of the elements a bit more breathing room, increased the size of the type along with changing the typeface to one that is easier to read, this new change would look and work beautifully.

Regardless, great job at working towards improvement and I look forward to seeing what new features DN comes out with.

Have to be totally honest because i love Designer News and check it so frequently every day. This redesign is very disappointing to me, especially consider what Designer News was.

• My biggest gripe is the typography. It had SUCH strong typography, Helvetica performed amazingly. Helvetica replaced with Gill Sans & Minion. Why the switch? Gill Sans' characters are so unconfident and weak compared to even other geometric fonts that could have been chosen (Futura, Avant Garde, Proxima, Avenir). Why use 3 different fonts when 1 was perfect before?

• Spacing and margins were amazing, every post had such a great feel and weight to them. Now everything is very compartmentalized and there's a lot of padding issues around icons, dividers, typography.

I love Designer News AND Layervault, I only take this time to write this out of love :) It's really difficult to come to terms with the fact that a designer's new source's brand just got weaker and unsure of its self.

Great stuff as always! For me though the homepage is a bit harder to read now, with the icons being in their new location and then some items not having them it's hard to just run your eye down one column, the indentation throws me off. Still awesome stuff :)

I may be going against popular opinion here, but I actually really dislike this update and find it much harder to read than before. I can't find a place to focus on. There doesn't appear to be any sort of hierarchy. I also feel like while I'm on the actual site that I'm looking at a mobile site. Especially now, in this story post. Is there a reason that the entire website seems to be at similar proportions to a mobile device? The overall typographic treatment just seems a bit large and horsey to me now, were as before everything seemed to be delicate and in it's place before. It all just seems like sort of a mess, if I may be blunt. To be perfectly honest, I thought it was a joke at first.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate you guys taking the time out to update things, especially making the site more mobile friendly, however I thought the original design was great and I don't see any need to have completely redesigned all of the typographic and iconographic elements (even the layout is different!) Nine times out of ten I am all for change, updates, and 'facelifts' to brands and websites, but this is just far too large of a departure for me. DN no longer feels like a strong and powerful source for designers and developers alike. Now it just feels juvenile and unsure of itself.

One last bit: Serif typefaces ? better legibility. That rule really only applies when the point size is very small, but you've chosen to make the smallest type size on the site sans serif.

Edit: For those who are interested, below I've posted a before and after of the DN website. Feel free to compare.

Before: http://d.pr/i/B0Om After: http://d.pr/i/P0se

I probably should have added my comment here ;)

So, I just opened up the designer news page and was like WOOAAHHHH. Everything has changed. I am totally all for iteration, but I think this one may have taken a step back. Here is some feedback.

1. It's actually harder to read now, with the font change. Gill sans is a tough one at small sizes, I think.

2. With the images now included in the container (instead of laying outside of it), my eye now has to jump from right to left as I scan down the page. It was really nice to have the ability to just follow the icons on the left, then scan right when I wanted to see what the content actually was.

3. Also, this may have been there before, but there is a lot of text under each headline. I think the headlines might benefit from a bit more white space, or the removal of some of the secondary text.

Just thoughts from another designer. This is an awesome service, and I appreciate all the awesome work that has gone into it.

Thanks!

With all due respect:

I'm finding the text on this versión harder to read, the thread view is too narrow and the replies look very confusing.

I appreciate the purpose of the changes, but I think this version is not as good as the previous. The typography, for instance, despite of being a sans was really polished and detailed.

The icons in the front page make headlines hard to skim. My eyes wander all around the screen.

It does look better on my phone (which, btw, is not an iPhone, but a Nexus 4). Thanks for that.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I'm taking it all in. Some improvements have already been made, others will come over the next day or two. The goal wasn't to flex some design muscles. As stated in the original post, you're going to see a lot of small iteration while we try to get things right.

Ah what a great gift for a Friday.

I left Thursday feeling slightly sad about the typefaces and even more so when I saw all the comments along the same lines.

This though, is much better. Indentation fixed, typefaces much improved - back to the cleaner style whilst feeling more modern.

My only criticism is the way in which replies to comments become continually more intended and therefore narrower as the conversation develops. After 2 comments the space becomes too condensed.

But way to go to ask for feedback, and make changes. You guys rock - it can't be easy to design for designers.

Much love.

90% or more users are designers here. Therefore, most of them has larger screens for design purposes. I mean most people has resolution of 1080p or around. So this section seems very

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http://postimg.org/image/5m99e68wv/full/

My first impression concerns are the posts not being aligned on the homepage due to icon / no icon and not having the arrows to up vote. It does look great on the iPhone but I believe so many of us use it on the browser at work.

I'm having a really hard time with readability here guys. Too many typefaces, too many sized. Not a great experience.

Really like the Minion type used here but I don't really like the use of Gill sans on the stories page. The weight where the Gill sans is thinner make it harder to scan; it's not as easy as the previous version. Beside that, the combination of subtle color (except the link) and Gill sans in small size make it even harder to read. Personally I prefer the old version where it's really dead simple.

Looks good, although I'm not sure about the Minion font, it is making the text look very busy. You could go back to the Avenir/Helvetica but keep the new serif text, as a suggestion.

comment threads are a bit narrow for the font size, eh?

I definitely am happy to see DN looking a bit better for iphones. Great job!

One quick concern: viewed links do not change color anymore and look just the same as unopened links. I relied on this feature in the previous version — it made it a lot easier to skim thru site and return throughout the day without accidentally opening the same content over and over again.

I love the update Allan. Great work LayerVault team!

One bug I've noticed; If I vote for a story, I can no longer click on the comments link. This isn't intentional, is it?

Changing fonts + fixing the icons has made me happy, very nice :D

I am a fan of this update.

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/264634112/h0C601039/

Hooray! An Apple badge that doesn't look like a tomato! :-) Nice work, guys.

the StoryUrl font feels way too bold/heavy

I spend 10 min to tweak the CSS. With little work you can def improve the hierarchy and legibility – Check it here: http://cl.ly/image/0i0f04031k2p

That was a massive change, I even miss the Gill Sans change and straight into whitney.

Readability has dropped significantly for me as I always prefer larger text and wider columns to fill the screen on desktop. It forces me to scroll down way too much now especially on active stories. Not too keen on the threaded comment too. Feels a little claustrophobic with the narrower column.

What's interesting for me is the font choice is not great when I was reading it on my desktop machine, but when I fire up DN on my phone, it was such a delight! I really enjoyed it on my phone. Looks sexy on mobile.

I think this could be down to reading distance, typography, and whitespace balance. Everything else, is as sweet as ever.

Thanks guys for making the effort, and able to take it to the chin with some of the comments and turn in around quickly. Still think you guys did an amazing job creating a space for designers. Double THUMBS UP!

Only bug i spotted is maybe this. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9898885/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-11%20at%2010.20.18.png

Nice. But it may take some time to digest.

Not a Big issue, (Windows/Chrome)

http://i.imgur.com/nMYaa6G.png

I really do not like the changes. The serif font is hard to read and the the narrow column just does not work well on large screens. Overall everything is more difficult to read.

I think the index is a big improvement. Not sure yet on the header, and i really don't love the comments (sorry!), but the index I love. The roman Gill Sans looks so good. And I am in the minority in that I think the badge placement is way nicer than the half-overlapping treatment from before, even if it does place perhaps importance on some stories over others (it did already anyway).

The new story page is awesome. I love the black buttons. And thank youuuuuu for "Upvote" instead of "^"

Also: Yikes, I can't even imagine designing something that only designers use. :)

I'd love to be able to collapse comments!

I love how this looks on my mobile device now! Great work. Any plans to create an icon for when the site is added to the springboard?

Comments are much easier to read!!

But a bit heavy handed with the vertical and horizontal rules: http://d.pr/i/fTzg

1) I like the new font families. 2) I find the light gray text has not enough contrast, and echo some others that it is oftentimes quite tiny. Perhaps this is less of an issue on retina displays, but typical high-res non-retina displays are not as awesome. 3) Is the new graphic of the person and speech bubble the new brand for Designer News? 4) I find it incredible that the homepage/header has no mention of "Designer News" anywhere. It looks more like an RSS reader now. Was that the goal? 5) It looks gorgeous on mobile devices, albeit with no logo, etc. Be very curious on your decision around this.

As always, I'm very much impressed with your attention to detail and craft.

I think it should be noted that the current iteration introduces an awkward punctuational issue—the period used to terminate the last initial and the comma to split the name and title line.

I'm not sure it's WP related issue but it's not responsive/readable,

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=3CE9DB30FE6217D7!262&authkey=!AMD8_cHd5MBx_Pk&v=3

I think the biggest gripe I have with the new design is readability issues, as others have mentioned. But it mainly seems to come from the black article titles. The blue stood out much better and thus making the whole list easily scannable.

How current design would look with blue titles: http://kldr.co/RvoG

Does anyone have a screenshot of the old designer news?

Love the update, you guys rock.

Love the update, you guys rock.

The profile and logout buttons are jutting out on the left about 10px.

Love the update!

I much prefer the new typefaces, but I have to say that I'm not too keen on the new comments structure & story feed structure. When everything was in its own clear white block, it was much easier to scan through.

As everything is now contained in a single white block, it's a little more difficult to scan through and although there are dividers there to help guide the viewers, they aren't as clear. I'm sad to see them go – it was something that I'd drawn a lot of ideas from as it was quite different from the norm, and in my opinion, much better.

Apart from that bugbear, it's a massive improvement. Nice work guys.

Aww, what happened to Gill Sans :(

Fantastic work!

I wish you didn't turn off user scaling for iOS devices. Text probably looks fine on an iPad, but I REALLY want to zoom in on my iPad Mini.

In Firefox (windows) the logo ends up on top of Stories/Jobs.

.edit: I see this has just been fixed. Awesome.

Are notifications gone? I got a few comments/replies but don't see any notification area.

Freakin' awesome guys! Love the update.

Looks fantastic!

Fantastic improvements Nice work!

As always, DN looks amazing. Nice job, Layervault!

Reminds me of Quora! I love it.

Very good udpate guys ;)

Keep up the good work !

What about HTML5 elements?

It is nice to see available invite count next to the invite link.

(if you missed, previously, it was next to profile link.)

scrollbar bug on user profiles: http://www.dropmocks.com/mByKp8

(i'm probably the only one who sees this cause i'm the only one on windows)

Loving the update.

Small bug with mobile submission page: the form module is wider than the viewport and can scroll horizontally.

http://manik.io/image/0k182S2r2U2X

Love the new update, great job guys!

There is a small bug on the profile page, I haven't invited someone.. yet, but it shows this "Maarten has invited".

This is really nice. Kudos!

Can I make a post on my iPhone? I don't see it anywhere. Looks really good though on iPhone.