[Terretta]

The notion that the sidebar icons should be aligned with the firm brand logo doesn't make sense to me, these things are not the same. On that point, the before looks better than the after, to me, as the difference is differentiated.

The "what good looks like" example provided, HeroUI, avoids aligning these:

https://www.heroui.pro/components/application/layouts

[matusp]

I think the after looks better, it feels more in control, but at the same time, even the before was completely functional and users would be completely happy with it.

[travem]

I am not sure what is going on with that screen, but the whole page seems to be "vibrating" in a very distracting way, never encountered that on another site before!

It appears to be related to my display settings on Mac OS. When the text size for the display is set to the "Larger text" it shows this vibrating. When the text size is set to one of the smaller sizes the shaking/vibrating does not appear.

[boxed]

The top level icon misalignment is super small and looks like a mistake. The counts for the message list also renders partially renders outside the row for each message for me. So that's a bit of a fail.