Ask HN: Does this logo/UI suck?

In my opinion, yes.

The logo background doesn't fit the page background, while this may be intentional, it looks like sloppy design.

The light bulb looks like a 1995 clipart, the glowing icons on top are meaningless and look cheap.

I'm not a designer but I suggest: make it simpler, use a slightly unusual font and a color.

do you want a designer who's really good for like 5 bucks? He can do a logo for that much. message me if you want to get in touch via fivver.

The UI is unnecessarily cluttered and the logo overly complex.

For the logo, I'd try removing the smaller top icons, removing the .org at the end and replacing the center O with the lightbulb (or a similar but rounder lightbulb).

For the UI, you need more space between some elements and the spacing to be consistent. I don't really like the position of the Facebook Like button or sharing widget either. You could add a little color to call attention to more important sections of your UI but that's not as important at this point.

I think that all of your font sizes are too similar. Think about what is the most important to least important on the page and use the font size that is appropriate.

You have three menu bars near the top of the screen. On the left there's the social media stuff. On the right there's the [register | forgot password] stuff. In the middle there's the long menubar. These three are not neat and tidy.

In the logo there are button-like things that are not buttons, they're just part of the graphic.

In the middle of the top there's the phrases "Web Mobile Tablets Standalone Software" which again looks like a menubar, but isn't.

That top third of the screen could look a lot nicer and neater.

Wow! Thanks a lot DanBC, VMG, proexploit and andrewthornton. Really wonderful feedback from all of you; will work on implementing most (if not all) of the suggestions so far.

Please keep more of it coming folks, on all aspects of the site.

I agree - the text size is too small and you should experiment with a transparent background to the logo.

I'd also remove the word Beta - it doesn't hold any meaning these days with Google over using the word.

for the UI menu, I'd space these out a little more and increase the size of the tabs - maybe splashing a bit of color on these wouldn't be a bad thing either.

Also, increase the size of the page name as you can easily miss it...I'd say this feels more like a word document that a web page at the moment?

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