Topic on Talk:Design/Archive/Athena

• The new design shows a large picture placed above the article, with the title of the article placed in front of it, in white text. The image is shown matching up perfectly to the width of the screen. How would this be possible to do on all screens?
• I can't see having a 100%-width image over every article working. Many topics simply don't have a good "representative" image. What would be at the top of, say, w:Adverb, w:Enlargement of the African Union, w:Telecommunications in South Korea, w:Dunning–Kruger effect, w:Sainte-Laguë method, or w:Languages of Oceania? Even for those articles that could have an image that represents the topic, how many could be 100%-width, ~160px-height image, working well? I'm having difficulty thinking of any article other than w:The Beatles itself that it would work well with.
• The image seems to show virtually everything collapsed under a "more v" menu. That's going to make things seriously difficult to find.
• Avatars? Um, that's not going to be liked.
• In plain white, the "Locked" icon loses much of the meaning. The difference between being move-protected, full-protected, semi'd, PC'd, etc is significant.
• What is the "Contents >" bar supposed to be? Navigation based on images? Wouldn't simple text, like the current Table of contents, work better?
• "Search over 4 million articles" heavily overemphasizes article count, in my opinion, and isn't very clear. Additionally, it doesn't translate well for new wikis :/ .
• The new GlobalProfile pic looks nice, though I think it would be helpful if all parts of it were customizable, so users could, for example, decide to not display their uploads on their user page, or relocate the contribs box.

I really liked the old design, at least the general structure of it. The new version, not so much...

I haven't seen the old version Yair rand refers to, but I really like this concept as it stands now. I have a couple of concerns -- one being the use of advanced interface elements being unusable on older browsers (both mobile and desktop) or older hardware (again both mobile and desktop), and the other the predominance of greyscale images in the examples. For that latter point, note that both images featured on the Beatles mockup are greyscale, which serves to emphasize the "primarily monochromatic theme" touted in the Color Scheme section... I wonder if the effect of this "minimal and bold" color scheme will be muted or disrupted if coupled with full-color article images. LtPowers (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)