diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index a12340c544bd1..1e2ab02facd13 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ List of TODO items for Caravel
 * **Dashboard URL filters:** `{dash_url}#fltin__fieldname__value1,value2`
 * **Default slice:** choose a default slice for the dataset instead of
     default endpoint
-* **refresh freq**: specifying the refresh frequency of a dashboard and
-    specific slices within it, some randomization would be nice
 * **Widget sets / chart grids:** a way to have all charts support making
     a series of charts and putting them in a grid. The same way that you
     can groupby for series, you could chart by. The form field set would be
@@ -27,8 +25,6 @@ List of TODO items for Caravel
     some visualizations as annotations. An example of a layer might be
     "holidays" or "site outages", ...
 * **Slack integration** - TBD
-* **Sexy Viz Selector:** the visualization selector should be a nice large
-    modal with nice thumbnails for each one of the viz
 * **Comments:** allow for people to comment on slices and dashes
 
 
diff --git a/caravel/assets/stylesheets/caravel.css b/caravel/assets/stylesheets/caravel.css
index d8fdc1475df1b..e12ebb0610976 100644
--- a/caravel/assets/stylesheets/caravel.css
+++ b/caravel/assets/stylesheets/caravel.css
@@ -82,14 +82,6 @@ input[type="checkbox"] {
 form div {
   padding-top: 1px;
 }
-.navbar-brand a {
-  color: white;
-  text-decoration: none;
-}
-.navbar-brand a:hover {
-  color: white;
-  text-decoration: none;
-}
 
 .header span {
     margin-left: 5px;
@@ -135,10 +127,10 @@ span.title-block {
 .nvtooltip table td{
     font-size: 11px !important;
 }
-.navbar {
-  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 3px 3px #AAA;
-  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 3px 3px #AAA;
-  box-shadow: 0px 3px 3px #AAA;
+div.navbar {
+  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 2px 2px #CCC;
+  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 2px 2px #CCC;
+  box-shadow: 0px 2px 2px #ccc;
   z-index: 999;
 }
 .panel.panel-primary {
diff --git a/caravel/assets/stylesheets/less/variables.less b/caravel/assets/stylesheets/less/variables.less
index 305e9926f61f5..3d61578d4d69d 100644
--- a/caravel/assets/stylesheets/less/variables.less
+++ b/caravel/assets/stylesheets/less/variables.less
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 @gray-light:             #bbb;
 @gray-lighter:           lighten(@gray-base, 93.5%); // #eee
 
-@brand-primary:         darken(@babu, 5%);
+@brand-primary:         @kazan;
 @brand-success:         darken(@lima, 15%);
 @brand-info:            @beach;
 @brand-warning:         @hackberry;
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@
 @btn-default-bg:                 #fff;
 @btn-default-border:             transparent;
 
-@btn-primary-color:              #fff;
-@btn-primary-bg:                 @brand-primary;
+@btn-primary-color:              #444;
+@btn-primary-bg:                 #eee;
 @btn-primary-border:             transparent;
 
 @btn-success-color:              #fff;
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
 @navbar-default-link-hover-color:          @gray-dark;
 @navbar-default-link-hover-bg:             transparent;
 @navbar-default-link-active-color:         @gray-dark;
-@navbar-default-link-active-bg:            darken(@navbar-default-bg, 6.5%);
+@navbar-default-link-active-bg:            darken(@navbar-default-bg, 30%);
 @navbar-default-link-disabled-color:       #ccc;
 @navbar-default-link-disabled-bg:          transparent;
 
@@ -403,12 +403,12 @@
 //=== Inverted navbar
 // Reset inverted navbar basics
 @navbar-inverse-color:                      @gray-light;
-@navbar-inverse-bg:                         @brand-primary;
+@navbar-inverse-bg:                         white;
 @navbar-inverse-border:                     transparent;
 
 // Inverted navbar links
-@navbar-inverse-link-color:                 lighten(@brand-primary, 30%);
-@navbar-inverse-link-hover-color:           #fff;
+@navbar-inverse-link-color:                 #888;
+@navbar-inverse-link-hover-color:           #111;
 @navbar-inverse-link-hover-bg:              transparent;
 @navbar-inverse-link-active-color:          @navbar-inverse-link-hover-color;
 @navbar-inverse-link-active-bg:             darken(@navbar-inverse-bg, 10%);
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
 
 // Inverted navbar brand label
 @navbar-inverse-brand-color:                @navbar-inverse-link-color;
-@navbar-inverse-brand-hover-color:          #fff;
+@navbar-inverse-brand-hover-color:          @navbar-inverse-link-hover-color;
 @navbar-inverse-brand-hover-bg:             transparent;
 
 // Inverted navbar toggle\
@@ -728,9 +728,9 @@
 @panel-default-border:        #ddd;
 @panel-default-heading-bg:    #f5f5f5;
 
-@panel-primary-text:          #fff;
-@panel-primary-border:        @brand-primary;
-@panel-primary-heading-bg:    @brand-primary;
+@panel-primary-text:          black;
+@panel-primary-border:        gray;
+@panel-primary-heading-bg:    #eee;
 
 @panel-success-text:          #fff;
 @panel-success-border:        @state-success-border;
diff --git a/caravel/templates/appbuilder/navbar.html b/caravel/templates/appbuilder/navbar.html
index c4283b74d3810..90cd397497d9e 100644
--- a/caravel/templates/appbuilder/navbar.html
+++ b/caravel/templates/appbuilder/navbar.html
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
         <img width="50" src="/static/assets/images/caravel_logo.png">
       </a>
       <span class="navbar-brand">
-        <a href="{{appbuilder.get_url_for_index}}">
           {{ appbuilder.app_name }}
-        </a>
       </span>
     </div>
     <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">