My overall goal here is:

• General UI refresh
• Better consistency between UI elements (nav, lists, menus, crumbs)
• Lessen use of sprites (gradients, app-icons) and reduce KB on the wire
• Tie into dashboard/home "launch"

I like this a lot on ApplicationSearch and Conpherence. First impression on Home is that it's a touch bland, maybe? Let me patch it locally and poke around...

Yeah, it's not as awesome on home than the other places, and I can't quite figure out why, it'll get tweaked some more as I have ideas. Overall though I've been using it a few days and feels so much better than the old site. Having a hard time switching back.

I've found I use 15 apps on my sidebar, when I took a good pass at customizing. It all fits on my laptop ok.

I really like this after poking around a bit.

One small technical issue is that some apps do this, which is a touch funky:

I do feel like it would be nice to punch the homepage up half a notch somehow, but don't have any concrete suggestions for it yet.

The gradient on the app hover states in the crumbs feels a touch out of place to me now, too.

I'd like to smooth out the functional behavior of "Customize Applications..." before we move away from small tiles, and take a shot at making the "Applications" application a more usable application launcher. Let me get a couple of diffs out for those.

Unless you want to hold this for a while, I don't think we really need to keep this in a branch for very long (assuming @btrahan doesn't have feedback, at least). We could push it to secure for a couple of days to cover our bases.

Yeah, I still have probably 5-6 more diffs in my head for the redesign (including getting rid of blue and lightblue icons). I imagine this to be in a good state for secure in a week, a week of regular contributor feed there, then kill the branch.

By the way, I added some feedback around the sidebar in T5180 (mostly functional and less about design though).