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Hi everyone,

At the beginning of the beta I linked up Mat Tomaszewski from the Canonical Design Team to work with Jin Yang from SO on the design for the final site. I am posting the design here on his behalf since he doesn't have the rep (yet!)

Home page:

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Question Page

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Error Page

(a little pun on the twitter's fail whale ;)

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I knew Mat would do an amazing job, +42 – Jorge Castro Oct 6 '10 at 16:20
Converted to Community Wiki – Marco Ceppi♦ Oct 6 '10 at 17:01
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WOW! That really feels like part of the Ubuntu family, rather than part of the Stack Exchange family. Great job. – fluteflute Oct 6 '10 at 18:29
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Gorgeousness and gorgeousity! – msw Oct 9 '10 at 17:54
Design is nice, but dont you feel the font size is a notch high? It feels like I have zoomed in the page. – Lazer Oct 10 '10 at 7:06
Also, wasn't this supposed to be used once we are out of beta? – Lazer Oct 10 '10 at 7:10
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locked by Marco Ceppi♦ Oct 12 '10 at 18:48

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I can't think of a better suited person to design the SE Ubuntu site! Good job Mat, I love the design.

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The whole thing looks amazing.

One quick thing... were you able to secure the rights to use the Penguin image for the 404 page? That was pretty much a unanimous decision.

The vote on the captcha image question seemed to suggest that this image should be used.

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How will site-wide messages be displayed/handled (Like that at the top of the site now)?

Otherwise this site design looks absolutely spectacular! Great job Mat!

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Thanks a lot for your comment Marco, glad you like the design! With regards to your question - we're yet to tackle this, but I think they will use the similar logic to the current notifications. – Mat Tomaszewski Oct 6 '10 at 16:58
I wonder if they could look notify-osdish? – Jorge Castro Oct 6 '10 at 17:03
Probably not, since notify-osd is very "desktop" (also, the bubbles are non-actionable, unlike SE notifications). We're still in the process of defining the notification experience for the web, and until that's done I think we should follow the logic the SE users are familiar and comfortable with. – Mat Tomaszewski Oct 7 '10 at 9:53
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Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Simply Awesome!

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I love the design on this site and really digg the Ubuntu Font (i believe this is the same one used on the site correct?)

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I'd like an option for a dark them. I can't stand to look at very bright colors.

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can we stars on the browsing level of the questions without having to click into the question. Makes it easy to star questions, for later reading.

Great Job!

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@garbadgecollector that's a feature which will impact all Stackoverflow trilogy/Stackexchange sites. you can request the feature at meta.stackoverflow.com – Jin Oct 6 '10 at 18:44
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