By the right size, I mean I'm seeing the borders as cut off on the + and - buttons, only seeing half of the SIAI and FHI image, and then only when I mouse over. The icons that you are going to click a lot should also be larger - I don't want to have to work for it. By readable, I actually meant two things. "A community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality" is unreadable in the images. And the icons probably do need little readable labels on them so someone who doesn't use the site every day doesn't have to wait for the alt-text every time.
I now see thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons instead of the cut-off + and - icons.
I saw some discussion posts earlier talking about a LessWrong redesign, and now that things look different, I guess that it's been implemented. I'm always slightly annoyed for a while when a site I use gets redesigned because I have to relearn where everything is, but it eventually wears off once I'm used to the changes.
My initial impressions:
"Hmmm... it seems like the category menus have been replaced by dropdown menus. It's not like I used many of them anyway."
"Okay, I've clicked my name to see my recently posted comments. Now, where's the link to see it in context? Oh, I guess I have to click that icon in the lower right corner. For some reason I was looking for something at the upper right of the comment box."
"Well, that worked. Now how do I click to the parent comment? Oh, wait, it's probably one of those new icons in the lower right corner. I'll just mouseover them to see what they do..."
::realization sets in::
"AAUGH! LESSWRONG IS USING MYSTERY MEAT NAVIGATION!!!"
So, what does everyone else think of the new redesign?