> Why do these important sites never get actual user feedback before forcing out a major update as a big "surprise" ?
The people behind the redesign do so for career, resume & portfolio reasons - they are very unlikely to ever use MDN themselves so they don't care and don't see the problem. You can't rely on user feedback because there's a very high risk users will tell you everything is fine and there's no need for you to mess with anything.
Re:MDN Redesign
by booleandilemma on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:20PM
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So...they should change their tagline to: Resources for Developers, by UI Designers
Damn, it sure would be terrible to keep the UI the same even when the users say it’s, you know, fine the way it is. Ugh.
Ok I added styles that I am using for the site, I included Before and After screenshots, see link https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5389
Also interested in the custom styles. Although I like the redesign, it's all over the place typographically – 300 only for h1, 400 for h2 with a slight increase in letter spacing (?!) – but can't be bothered to apply a fix myself.
can you share your custom styles?
Update: I added custom styles to remove 95% of the extra margins, padding, spacing, line-height, updated h1/h2/h3/h4 header styling, code highlight styling, and it looks 10 times better, I can actually read the information. Unfortunately I still prefer the previous version
Question: Why do these important sites never get actual user feedback before forcing out a major update as a big "surprise" ?