> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/news/2026/2026-11-04-your-workspace-has-a-new-look.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

The admin app, the portal for applicants, assessors and verifiers, and Backed's sign-in pages now
share one look. Every page, menu item, permission, filter and action is where it was, with the same
name; what changes is how the screens read.

## Across the admin app

- **Lighter type.** Headings and labels are semibold rather than heavy, and only the page title
  keeps the wide lettering. Tabs, labels and most buttons are in sentence case.
- **Quieter edges.** The heavy black rule under a page title is gone. Cards, panels and fields lose
  their thick top line, and cards no longer lift when you point at them.
- **Tables in a frame.** Lists sit inside a frame, with a shaded heading row and lighter lines
  between rows.
- **Buttons.** A page's main action keeps its full-size uppercase button. Other buttons are in
  sentence case, and the lightest are underlined links.
- **Badges, filters and chips.** Status badges are rounded and borderless. Filter pills and chips
  are square, and a chosen filter is filled.
- **Dialogs and menus.** Dialogs, drawers, menus and messages are square with a thin line; the
  coloured bar across the top of a dialog is gone.
- **Avatars.** A person's initials sit in a round avatar whose colour comes from their name, so the
  same person always has the same colour. Organisations keep their square logo.
- **Where you are, in the top bar.** The section and page you are on now show in the top bar,
  between the logo and search, and a record's name ends the trail:
  `Award and pay › Assessors › Priya Nair`. The line that repeated it above the page title is gone.
  The trail is hidden on a phone.
- **Every screen matches.** Settings, platform, assessment, decisions, award and pay, outcomes,
  reporting, rounds, applications, people, communications, the builders, your account and the Help
  Centre all use the same parts, so headings, figures and notes read the same size everywhere.

See [Getting started as an administrator](/administrator/getting-started/getting-started-as-an-administrator).

## In the portal

- **The admin app's frame.** The sidebar and top bar follow your light or dark choice: white in the
  light theme, where they were dark. Your organisation's colours and logo show as before.
- **The same parts.** Applicants, assessors and verifiers see the same type, buttons, fields, tables
  and cards as the admin app. Section headings on milestones, the welcome steps and a shared
  milestone are one size, and the tables of paid payments sit in a frame.
- **Your score total.** When you score an application, the total shows in the large figure type
  Backed uses for numbers.

See [Your applicant dashboard](/applicant/applicant-home) and
[Your assessor dashboard](/assessor/assessor-home).

## Signing in

- **Lighter titles.** The sign-in, join and account pages carry the same lighter titles, and the
  figures on the join page are plain numbers.
- **Clearer choices.** When you choose a role or agree to terms, the card you pick shows a mark and
  a coloured bar on its left edge, inside a thin frame.
- **Your account.** The short introduction on your account pages sits above the tabs. See
  [Your account](/administrator/users/your-account).

## What has not changed

- **Where things are.** No page, menu item, permission, filter, action or guided tour moves.
- **Colours.** Backed's colours, and your organisation's, are the same. Both the light and the dark
  theme have the new look.