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

 

[Barry Kelly]

General replies are not indented.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Since we are revamping things, can we return to the top of the replies rather than the top of the post when going to the next page?

[Lingwisyer]

The banner will not close for me on Chrome or Edge.

Closes for me now. Maybe has a timeout?

[Pavel_N]

My comment was about the alignment of the "Latest reply" text in the thread title list, not the alignment of posts in the tree view.

[Barry Kelly]

Ah, you mean this.

 

Barry.

[Pavel_N]

Yes, I was rather describing the first impression, where the previous version seemed more organized in the thread list, but now it seems irrelevant to me 🙂 Overall, I really like the new look.

[Jp1138]

I llike the colors, etc, but the forum seems to need even more scrolling now. I suppose you are all on 4K monitors, because at FHD all looks huge, specially fonts of the message titles, like you are on mobile mode or something.

Here you can compare a "normal" forum and the new GS one:

Right now I don´t know how to look for unread messages, that´s the way I usually browse forums. Am I missing something? 🤔

[Claudius]

Unread topics have a dark title in the list. Topics you've fully read are in grey. In your screenshot that would be the "Key Note Legends" topic. Does this need more emphasis? 

[mgg]

Yes, read (dark grey) and unread (black) threads are really hard to distinguish. This has already been mentioned in the german forum.

If the colors are to remain the same, it might help to make them more distinguishable through different font weights.

[Noemi Balogh]

I already passed this feedback to the designer, she's checking the options how to align with the branding and still provide better visibility.