Ability to switch to the old render UI
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Shree
I was very fond of the previous render UI. I used to refer render design as inspirations for the other team members. Clean and absolute beast. After this overhaul, I don't feel like anymore.
It is very sharp, terminal output is unreadable, dashboard used to show the status with "green tick" for healthy services and "red colored alert" for unhealthy ones, now everything is black and white. Contrast is very high. Adds strains to the eye to focus on the content due to same color of borders and inside text.
It just looks dry and boring. Interacting with this UI for daily 8 Hrs a day feels burden now.
An option in setting to change back to the old UI as a user preference would be great.
Other than that, great appreciation to the Render Team for this awesome platform.
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Nasim Obeid
I made a community forum on this and everyone who has commented on there so far aren't a fan of the new render design. I agree that the UI feels like High-Contrast mode is on all the time. If there are users who have issues with low-vision then make a High-contrast mode instead of completely changing it for 95% of your users. This is the link for the forum: https://community.render.com/t/new-render-ui-is-ugly/22410
Josh Klekamp
Thank you for the feedback. We’re always open to it and want to make the Render dashboard a good experience for all users.
Here’s a bit of background on why we’ve made some of these changes:
— In the fall, we underwent a major rebrand for render.com. We love that our brand feels unique and wanted to bring some of that visual language into the dashboard.
— Our old dashboard had several contrast issues which didn’t pass accessibility standards for users that have low vision. The increased contrast is meant to give low vision users a better experience. This means much of the dashboard will feel more stark than it once was.
— This effort created a set of design and frontend components that we can iterate quickly on. As an example, we’ve already made changes to our logs component given feedback. These components also make things like dark mode or even a low-contrast mode much more feasible in the future.
As for some of the feedback you’ve shared, we will definitely take a look at some of the issues (hierarchy and color) you’ve cited.
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Julien Vallini
I guess a best move would have been to create a high-contrast mode for low vision users instead of worsening the UI for all the other users.
I agree with the other post, I really like the old UI and am very unhappy of this change (it even made me reach for the feedback button and leave this comment).
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Shree
Josh Klekamp
Thanks for the quick response.
I get that you guys are trying to make the platform UI accessible for everyone. Its a good thing. I really appreciate it.
But, high contrast mode is not necessary for everyone and even feels weird for some(Me included). So rather than making a global change for everyone, a theme profile approach would be great. And users can change that in their setting page as a user preference.
As a great example, I consider github's theme selection menu a solution to this problem. They have switchable options for even color-blind modes. This way everyone is happy. Specially I would be very very happy 😊.
Cheers !
Josh Klekamp
Shree — thanks again for the feedback. More modes are coming!
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Nasim Obeid
Josh Klekamp I understand where your team's coming from. However, I felt that this design change was mainly quite selfish in order to satisfy the rebrand. Nothing was fundamentally broken with the original design. This needs to be reverted asap. 'Taking a Looking into it' means waiting until we forget. The faster and easier fix is just reverting it completely to the previous version.
Josh Klekamp
Just wanted to quickly follow up on this thread.
Yesterday, the Render team launched dark mode and has given users the ability to toggle a high contrast mode for both light and dark modes. In addition to that, we've reworked colors and typography for several components in the dashboard.
We hope these improvements make your experience using Render even better. Thanks again for the feedback!
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andysimondesign
I 100% agree. The font size is too small and the contrast literally hurts my eyes.
Logs are almost unreadable now.
Visual hierarchy is a mess.
I'm actually considering moving to a different platform so I don't have to stare at this mess for another day.
Can someone from the design team explain how the new UI is an upgrade from the previous version?