Graphisoft Community is getting a fresh look!

[Noemi Balogh]

Dear Community Members,

We are happy to announce that we reached the first milestone of our Community site getting an updated look. Allow us to introduce you to this project and what you can expect from it.

Why do we update the look?

In 2025, Graphisoft started rolling out its new branding, which includes new colors, fonts and  updated look that better aligns with the brand message. Part of this update we not only update graphisoft.com, but other Graphisoft websites as well, including Graphisoft Community.

What changed?

Let us collect here all the changes we included this time, apart from the new colors and fonts.

New page headings

We updated the heading of our pages, so that they can help you navigate even easier while taking less space than before. We introduced coloring by categories, e.g. every page under the Forum is colored teal while all pages under Building Together are colored blue. They also became sticky, which means that when you scroll on a page, the header section is still visible, just reduced in size. This way you can easily track on which page you’re currently.

Before

After

We also moved the important buttons, such as “Subscribe” and “Create a topic” into the header, so it is easy to spot them and they have a consistent place on the pages.

Revamped page layouts

We took the chance and reviewed the most visited page types on the site and improved them to offer a cleaner look for you.

Before

 

After

 

Take a visit and check them out!

Compact mode is discontinued

With the new design we remove the option for the compact mode.

What is not changing

Functionality of Community is staying the same. All your profile related settings (except compact mode) will be kept as they were.

Found something wrong? Let us know!

Considering the size and complexity of the Community, we expect that there will be things that might not look good after our first release. We are committed to fix things and looking for your feedback!

Leave a reply on this topic with a screenshot or a screen recording and a short explanation of what should be improved.

Kind regards,

Noémi

 

[Claudius]

We've quickly brought those filter actions back. Enjoy the new community. 

[Patrick M]

only thing I can add is, it would be great if the confetti stopped splashing the screen every time I refresh or open a new thread... but I assume thats a temporary thing

[Gordana Radonic]

Hey @Patrick M, 
It is certainly a temporary thing - just to draw the attention to the news. We'll take your comment into a consideration! 
G

[Claudius]

Once you close the beta banner on top the confetti will stop. And there'll only be a sad clown somewhere about that... 🤡 😥 But that's okay.

[Mathias Jonathan]

Thanks for the new look @Noemi Balogh and the team. It looks like a lot more professionnal now!

[Patrick M]

I do like the new look!

[Pavel_N]

Hi,

It looks fresh, I like the color palettes of the background elements, the new apple shapes of the banners, the font.

It would be nice if they colored the background of posts that I haven't read yet when opening a thread. The tree layout is already confusing if I'm looking for only the latest posts. I would also expect that when opening a thread, the last post would be displayed, which is not happening now. But this behavior was already in the previous design, I'm just taking the opportunity to remind you of this 🙂

It's a shame about the big welcome bar, which doesn't add anything and just takes up space instead of allowing me to see, for example, the latest posts below without scrolling (it may vary depending on the screen resolution).

In the thread list, the "Latest reply" texts are not aligned below each other, but aligned to the right. It's confusing and hard to orient for me.

It would be nice if the wishlist and roadmap had a separate item in the top menu bar, not hidden under Building together.

Thanks for the fresh wind here.

PS: I think the font of the hyperlink in the signature does not match the font of the regular text.

[Gordana Radonic]

Thanks for taking the time to type in your feedback with multiple constructive observations, we really appreciate it! We’ll bring your comments to our designer for discussion and see what we can improve.

[Pavel_N]

Thank you for your response! Perhaps regarding my comment about aligning "Latest reply" to the right, I'm probably used to it by now, this information is probably not that important..

[Barry Kelly]

A reply to an individual post is indented on the left to help you follow who has replied to an individual thread.

Barry.