Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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Is there supposed to be a "The Overflow Blog" widget here at meta.SE?
Meta.SE screenshot:
Space.SE screenshot:
I think this is a bug; that box should be there. I checked archive.org and there was a widget previously.
Question: Is there supposed to be a "The ...
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Give edited messages on mobile chat an edit indicator like on desktop
Currently, edited chat messages have no pen icon indicating they’ve been edited on mobile chat view, but they do on desktop.
Edited messages should have the same edit indicator on mobile.
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (August 2025)
Today, I shared an update on the blog about the research we will be conducting over the next quarter.
TL;DR – this quarter’s research focus is as follows:
Exploring the information architecture of ...
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Make award bounty button more distinctive from label with already awarded bounty amount
Today I was awarding a bounty to this answer which had already been bountied before. Can you guess which is the label indicating the previously awarded bounty/ies and which is the button to award the ...
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Ad reloads make the page jump
I just noticed that the top ad banner seems to be reloaded every minute or so. When that happens, the content jumps up for a fraction of a second before jumping back down. This causes the screen to ...
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Room Owners and Mods could be better signified in mobile chat
On desktop mode in chat, Room Owners have italic names. Mods have italic names and are also blue (they’ve also got a little diamond next to their name).
On mobile chat, however, neither Room Owners or ...
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The text at the bottom of an election page should not be an <h2> as it trips up screen readers
The text at the bottom of an election page (example) is all an <h2>:
<h2>
This election is currently in the <a href="/election?tab=nomination">nomination</a> ...
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Visited link color in Area 51 menu is hard to read
On the Area 51 pages, the link to "Area 51" (located before the username or menu name) is hard to read because the visited link color is too similar to the menu background color. Could this be ...
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Navbar has a gap at the top [closed]
The navbar on Stack Overflow has a gap at the top. This seems to be caused by a margin-top offset.
Can confirm removing this margin places the navbar at the top as expected.
The gap:
The margin CSS.
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Chat room summary comparison - can we pivot toward the useful design?
The site has no fewer than three ways to display a summary of chat activity. I wanted to bring up: I like one of them (which may be new? I hadn't noticed it before) and find it Useful. The other two ...
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In review queues, for the "Learn more" modal Ctrl forces selected text to be unselected (FireFox)
Steps to reproduce:
Go to any review queue, for example the Low Quality Posts.
Click "Learn more" in the "Learn more about the [name of queue] queue" text at the top.
Mark some ...
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Refresh the dialog for flagging nominations to match the one for posts
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For reference, here's the current post flag dialog:
This:
Updates the caption to be consistent with the post dialog
Rewrites the final flag option
The text is updated to be closer ...
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Alignment issue in the Chat's welcome back notification bar
There is an alignment issue with the welcome back notification bar in the Chat page. The notification bar div does not stretch across the full width of the page, while the FAQ page does.
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"New" style replies leave mobile chat broken on ios18.5/safari
Strangely - I can't replicate this on my android phone but on ios18.5 on a iphone 16 pro, I get this. It might be a cached version of the test people were complaining about but its a little strange
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Left padding gone from chat messages in chat rooms
If I post a message into a chatroom (example, it has no padding on the left side. This also means the message actions and pencil/edited icons render on top of the text, which is suboptimal.
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