Stack Exchange sites are getting prettier faster: Introducing Themes
Our April Fools joke has a nice side effect: it's easier to make Stack Exchange sites more distinct.
Piper Lawson
Director of Product Design
Design
A deep dive into how we designed Collectives
Here's a detailed look into how we designed Collectives, starting from the initial ideation to all the decisions and considerations that led to what it is today.
Podcast 339: Where design meets development at Stack Overflow
We chat with Stack Overflow's director of brand design about the way his work overlaps with our development.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Building dark mode on Stack Overflow
On March 30, 2020, we enabled folks to opt into a beta dark mode on Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the work that went into it.
Aaron Shekey
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
Introducing Dark Mode (beta) for Stack Overflow
Our most requested feature is finally coming to life. You can try out Dark Mode in beta across Stack Overflow and help us make it great.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Research update: Improving the question-asking experience
Hi, my name is Lisa. 👋 I am a Product Designer on the Community Product team and I’m excited to provide this month’s UX research update! If you’ve asked a question recently, you may have noticed some changes to the question-asking form. This is the result of months of research reviewing the question-asking experience on…
Lisa Park
Product Designer - Former
Updating Navigation for Stack Overflow, Enterprise, and Stack Exchange Sites
This post refers to “Channels”, a product which is now called “Teams.” This post is part of a series on how we’re making Channels, the thinking behind the product, and insight into the process. Read “How We’re Designing Channels” and “Why Channels” for more background info. In his post, How We’re Designing Channels, Kurtis wrote that…
Donna Choi
Community Design Lead
How We’re Designing Channels
This post refers to “Channels”, a product which is now called “Teams.” This post is part of a series on how we’re making Channels, the thinking behind the product, and insight into the process. We’ve got smart people working on smart solutions, and continue looking to the community and alpha/beta testers as we iterate toward launch. Read…
Kurtis Beavers
Product Creative Director (former)
New Stack Overflow Footer & About Pages Launch Today
If you go anywhere on stackoverflow.com today, you’ll notice a brand new footer, new About pages, and possibly a few other surprises we’re still testing out (not everyone will see these yet). Back in February, we updated our top navigation, and today’s changes follow in the footsteps of this effort. We wanted to make it…
Kaitlin Pike
Marketing (Former)
Updating Stack Overflow
At Stack Overflow, we’re committed to making the internet a better place for every single developer. Over the last year, the design team has been working on how we could support that goal by eliminating unnecessary visual, experience, and interactive inconsistencies that exist throughout Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Examples of these efforts include updating…
Joshua Hynes
Senior Product Designer (former)
How We Built Our Blog
Yesterday, we announced the redesign of our blog and the addition of our engineering channel. This is the first post related to engineering detailing a walkthrough of what we’ve built, and what better than to blog about rebuilding our blog on our new blog? How meta. It started with an engineering blog A few months…
Jon Chan
Engineering Manager, Public Platform