User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-4189499-20140926140154

I think I'll grow to like it in time, but first impressions are that it's very big, and very... blank looking? The abundance of white and light grey makes it sort of just look like a big bar of nothingness with no features to draw the eye to a purpose. Sure, they're there, but they're not eye-catching, and considering the prominence of the bar itself, the lack of visual focus within the large visual focus point I think is a design mistake. I say, first make the bar smaller by removing some of the top and bottom padding, and then make the text size smaller, along with the height of the search bar. Follow that by increasing the contrast of the elements within the bar, ie making the greys darker for the most part. That would make it much better. Note that if you want to reply to my comment, you'll have to do so through Message Wall because there's nothing to make me come back and check for replies.