New: Visual Refresh

@Hannah_Martin and @J_Jones, thank you for sharing your feedback about the readability of the new colors. We’ll take this into consideration as we update and improve our color swatches.

@Julien_Mottet1  Yes, you’re correct about the current day no longer being highlighted in the date picker. This one slipped through the cracks, but is now fixed.

@Sean_Christense: Thanks for your feedback! We’ll consider this as we refine our new icons to improve contrast while maintaining the greater emphasis on the data in your Bases and Interfaces.

@Ryan_Pearl1, thanks for catching this. We have a fix out on the way.

@Phil_Rose thank for answering to everyone despite our grave feedbacks. 

It's hard to face criticism, especially what it's about work you deliver. 

It's hard to satisfy at the stakes holders.

We are at the easy place.

@Phil_Rose Seconding the thanks for giving this another look.  Much appreciated.

I've got an incredibly minor bug relating to colours that never seemed worth its own thread so I'll drop it here if that's OK.

When adding new colour conditions to a view, the colours are automatically added sequentially except for the third colour from the left on the top row, which is always skipped. Again, totally minor and off-topic but it's always mildly annoyed me.

I have a bit of feedback to share that I haven't seen mentioned.

Overall I think the changes are fine, I'm rather neutral about them. I have always felt boxed in by the color palate, and I'm sure there is a reason you don't allow users full color selection but I don't know what it is.

My real concern with this update is with the header section of interfaces, where fields are now extremely crammed together. There needs to be a lot more space between fields. I have a mix of bolded and unbolded fields, which now looks like this:

Anyway thanks for the continued support and improvement from the team.

I'm afraid I agree with a lot of the previous posters just in terms of the new look and feel: It looks a lot less warm and approachable. Instead I very much get a Microsoft vibe now. And if there's one thing I do NOT want in my software, it's a Microsoft vibe.

Please please put it back to the way it was! This new color scheme is a huge setback.

Hey ​@threadandmaple,

Just FYI, this discussion is currently going on on this other post. As mentioned on such post, you’ll want to fill out this form or reach out to support@airtable.com to make sure that the Airtable Team gets your feedback!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

I miss the bright, easy to read table tab colors that matched the icon colors! This is a nightmare on my eyes.

😭😭😭The new look/layout has been a terrible upgrade...When I was on a free account, one of the big motivators was to have a broader spectrum of colors so I didn’t have to use muted, pale, hard to distinguish colors. This update doesn’t feel good on my eyes. I want my bold, bright, high contrast table tabs back!

Also, the addition of “onmi” in the left nav now takes away valuable real estate for a feature I’m not going to use. I do not want AI forced into a database with my sacred data. it feels...intrusive. I will apply AI in my own way, how I see fit. I know it’s a big help for MMR of companies to incorporate AI functions, but I’m not yet comfortable with ai being this close to my data.

Please allow us to turn things like this on or off. I’m already fighting with my 3-foot monitor to see all the details in my base. I can’t lose any more on the left nave to stuff I can’t turn off. 

I wish you guys would beta this stuff or give us the opportunity to control what & how we see these new updates. I just want to go back to my easier to read bases.

HI ​@Jennifer_Ching,

This is an old thread from years ago that Airtable is not monitoring anymore.

Be sure to take both of these steps:

1. Email your complaints to support@airtable.com
2. Fill out this form with your complaints.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Thanks! Just did! It looked ok Monday… today I don't even recognize it.

Totally agree. Just submitted my complaints. Working in Airtable just became lots less fun! The dark mode is totally unusable. Why update a perfect layout without consulting userpanels? 

Mostly redundant at this point, but I feel it’s worth adding one more comment about a preference for the old color scheme. This is a big step back. The colors weren’t just fun, they served an obvious purpose: one base could be instantly distinguished from another. 

It really feels like the platform has been stripped of its identity. When I’m swamped in browser windows and tabs, it’s much more difficult to find Airtable at a glance.

This comes from a place of love. I want Airtable to be the best it can be, and this visual update just ain’t it. 

Totally agree with you! Be sure to submit your complaints, although it likely won’t do any good.

One of my biggest complaints about the new UI is that once you go into a base’s data layer, it is now significantly more difficult for the “views sidebar” (in the left margin) to get out of our way when we don’t want to see it.

We don’t typically want to see the “views sidebar” because it takes up so much screen real estate, but now it takes 3 clicks to get it out of our way.

In the past, it didn’t take any clicks at all to keep the views sidebar out of our way, because it had a “hover” behavior. In the past, we could just hover over the views menu, choose the view that we want, and then the views sidebar would immediately close.

But now, it takes 3 mouse clicks to open the views panel, choose a view, then close the views sidebar.

This is because we are now required to either “open” or “close” the sidebar. The “hover” action has been removed.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

I agree with everyone. And I would like to add my penny regarding this inconistency between table color, and base icon
totally unusable. suppose you change to organge, but the tables are colored in something different. at least you keep it warmth. Really dissapointing

The new left-hand sidebar in addition to the “views sidebar” makes this much worse, too. We need to be able to make that minimize to the top bar, which already has a ton of wasted space. 

Not everyone is working on two large screens. Airtable needs to be optimized for regular laptop usage too.