The DOAJ site has had a design makeover. On the front page they’ve gone for a 1964 home-decor ‘modernist abstraction wallpaper’ look, which will likely have nostalgic connotations for Baby Boomer librarians, and perhaps a few who recall the early arcade videogame Pac-man, but will mean nothing to most students.
![](https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/2021/07/doaj.jpg?w=529)
The initial ‘modernism at home’ buzz does not then sit well with the styling of the numbers or of the “Find open access journals & articles” strapline on the front page. Either the fonts are all sleekly retro-modernist or they’re not. Don’t mix the two, I’d suggest.
The main Search box button is a very unfortunate shade of yellow, made even more jarring in combination with the blue flash on the dropdown menu…
![](https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/2021/07/blue.jpg?w=529)
Having made a search, the search button becomes a soft orange which better matches the new logo. But this still has the jarring blue flash on the dropdown menu.
![](https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/2021/07/interior.jpg?w=529)
Text-selection colour leaves the selected text clear (my Web browser has a UserScript that keeps the text-selection colour the same across all sites, but I turned it off to test).
Search results are looking good, but on a widescreen desktop I have to scroll down to get them.
What I get…
![](https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/2021/07/scrolltop.jpg?w=529)
What I want (and have to scroll down to every time)…
![](https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/2021/07/scroll.jpg?w=529)
Overall, pretty good. But the front page still needs some tweaking.