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The more I look at the center logo, the more I believe it captures exactly the kind of excitement generated by the whole operation.

NI Week keynote. Pure marketing BS. Exactly what I expected from it.

What i think....

What do you see beyond "package" and "manager" ?

I would like to end the day with positive (and hopefully constructive) feedback, so here is a list of pros on the new design: All the old links still work Broken pages (that I knew of) are fixed The top navigation bar takes less space (148px to 97px), which gives a bit more space to the page content Mobile view works much better than before, at least for general navigation (most of the content didn't change as far as I can tell) All the text in header and footer is bigger than before, which makes it much more readable, especially on higher resolution and smaller screens (not zoomed) It "feels" slightly faster than before. Not sure if it's me imagining things, but the site seems more responsive than before (perhaps they improved on lazy loading?) This is certainly something I can get used to (not that I have a choice anyway). However, I strongly suggest to use a different color palette for content pages. Dark green links, different shades of gray, and black text are almost indistinguishable and look very dull. Please give me some eye candy 😢 Other than that, I'm quite okay with most of the changes.

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About 35 minutes of people talking about how awesome everybody is (for some reason nobody mentioned me 😢). At 35:30 they finally address the new design. At 44:00 they talk about a six year commitment for the new roboRIO controller (whatever that is) for the FIRST robotics competition, financial support for students, equality and inclusion - quite important messages these days. At 45:56 they announce a campaign to "put a lens on 100 game-changing breakthroughs" (collected via Twitter). They will post the best ones here (one per week). The last 5 minutes are NI employees from all over the globe. Pretty much what you would expect from marketing material 🤷‍♂️ The new design probably makes green-screen capture easier.

If they would make the product page usable again I wouldn't care one bit. It is absolutely miserable to find a c-series module for example. They did at least move the data sheet link to the pop-up but wow is that thing bloated and terrible.

The logo is pretty uninspired and looks lifted from this company. It's going to take some time to get used to the green theme too - in my mind NI = blue + white. I wonder if NXG will get a green coat of paint. I'll reserve judgement on the content until I've seen the webinar, but it's heavy with cringe worthy marketing speak. Also, a moment of silence for Nigel the NI eagle. Soar Ambitiously™, N 🦅