January 2018 Release Notes

Love the new icons. :)

Can't read table column headers. Shading and font colors make it unreadable.

Can we change back to the blue color?  I was able to change the heading by "branding", but what about the App Tabs?  Can they be changed? 

I was using Google Chrome.  I can read the headers in Microsft Edge and Explorer, but on those two, the data header fonts are black against a dark gray background and also are difficult to read. 

Greg,
I agree with your issue. You are specifically referring to Summary Reports where the letters in the colum �group by� field are black on a grey background which does not have enough contrast. That does need to be changed.

This is not an issue of just whether or not we like purple. We can�t read the column headings in Summary reports.

I put in a ticket to report this as a bug. I will post back as to how Support responds.

I am getting really tired of not being able to control the app bar/UI color at either a user or app level. How is quickbase an enterprise app if it can't be configured to follow corporate design guidelines of at least a color scheme? First, everything was shaded blue, so i had to design all of our buttons and rich text fields in our app to match the blue just to get a coherent palette on screen, even if it wasn't (our) palette. Now it's purple, so we either live with blue and purple mix, or I get to spend all day recoloring field design elements to match. The new design is a step in the right direction, but anything that forcibly faces the end user (ie app bar) that we can't control should be a design NEUTRAL color (ie white or gray, just like the rest of the forced UI) ...You like purple, fine. Just don't force it down our throats. Either make it NEUTRAL or modifiable.

I fully endorse and agree with you. There is a bit of a arrogance about this.  I witnessed the same when I posted a long list of things that are amiss in native QB and no one bothered to come back to me if anything can be done about those.  Resorting to user voice is another non sense which leads to nowhere and if it does, it is years before an issue is fixed. 

@Evan, the upper right links (help, search, favorites, etc) are invisible unless you roll over them on Mac Chrome and Mac Safari.

An army of developers and they cannot test the changes beforehand on various browsers before rolling it out, beggars belief. 

I tested several browsers.  The view displayed on Google Chrome is the worst.  MS Edge, Explorer, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox are identical and all display slightly better than Chrome.

Thanks. Now we get to spend the next two weeks with our clients dealing with browser issues and reconfiguring their apps.

The 1992 anti-aliasing of text is a nice touch.

I hate being that guy but... $2000 a month product with (#02b8f3 - Buttons) drowned in a (#61347e + #74489d - [none customizable] Menu bar)? Not to mention the fallout I'm going to have to deal with tomorrow morning from the clash with all of my client's UIs that I built around the last Quickbase stylesheet. Look, I understand that I may be a different type of clientele than the rest of the Quickbase developer community in that I build and maintain applications for clients that expect a certain level of a professional appearance.  But please take a minute and understand my frustration with the amount of money I spend with Quickbase every month, to now being forced to have to create my own external UIs and get hit with paying even more for the increase in monthly API calls. For the thousands of dollars I spend every year  with Quickbase, it would be nice to get a little more than just a hosting server.

FWIW, this was a comment from one of my clients just now.

Cool visual update! Quickbase steps into the 21st century GUI design! woohoo! It definitely is easier on the eyes...

I would really like an option to revert to the previous color scheme/layout.  Our company name on the top bar is now a light blue on a purple background and each page feels like an exercise designed to test for color blindness.  I spend a good portion of my work day in Quickbase and I can already tell I'm going to have a headache before lunch.

We can confirm the most common reason that users are having an issue viewing the global seach/help buttons at the top of a Quick Base application is because the Header's color has been set to white and this causes them to blend in. An Application Admin can find this setting by going into the Applications Settings and selecting the Branding header. From there you would want to change the background color on the Header. We suggest any color that isn't in the range of solid white or off white for better visibility. 



For those users who are still experiencing any other visual or UI issues we do suggest that you put in a support case to help us track these issues and pass them on to our PD team. You can create a new case in Quick Base if you click Help > Manage Support Cases > + New Support Case. Thank you for your time today. Alternatively for those having issues finding the Help icon to put in a case you can also do so here:

https://www.quickbase.com/search?newcase=true

Please allow us to switch back to the old theme, this new UI is just terrible.

Reports that before wrapped perfectly, now extend out further than the size of the page. When I scroll left, it keeps the left-most cell, and cuts off any text in the previous cell. 
The green buttons are horrible and clash mightily with the grey/purple that has been added, and while I am ranting, what is up with the light grey and white buttons at the top? Did they test this with a usability group prior to making these changes? Was there multiple test groups that gave feedback to this? Can I see the reports that show that these are the changes users wanted and how the designers came up with this look?

So, instead of getting any actual work done this morning I'm having to rebrand my apps to get the search to be visible again. Brilliant.

I've also stopped counting the number of people that have asked me to change the tab color.

FYI - I had to do this same thing as an Admin under "UI" in our site to make the search show up.

Sorry, I promise this is my last design complaint. The Report records extend out further than the Report header. See image below. It is annoying to say the least. 

Guys, we print out some reports as "Work Orders", the new styling makes the printed work orders look odd.   Any tables in the printed form have headers that are nigh unreadable.  Please fix this.

Ha, remember how I said it was my last complaint? well I lied. this may have been occurring before, however, I can no longer export out Summary reports. When I click the More dropdown, I see double lines where before I had multiple options. I am an admin, so I have rights to all of this. Is this related to the new UI changes, or is this a change that is otherwise present? If so, I will need to push out a support ticket. 
What I am seeing:

What I should see:

Well, I figure this is a good place for this, since I am clearly not alone in my feelings towards having to re-brand...for anyone using all star record headers: here is an updated one reflecting the new colors. Figured it might be useful to someone here and spare a bit of their morning, already wasted mine.  https://www.pastiebin.com/5a6628b0858e0

I hesitate to comment further, since there are more than 60 on this subject already.  I will just chill for a while and see what happens.  In the meanwhile, here's my most recent disturbing screenshot.