Apple.com gets a redesign • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by nfg » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

spitfire wrote: post #4

I don't like it. The light grey worked and seemed very Apple. This dark black seems a little too serious and the menubar seems somehow incomplete. I'm sure they'll still sell millions of whatever they're selling though. and I'll still buy their stuff.

Could be a sign of a shift to a darker tone in OSX Lion as as been rumoured in the past.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by thomasfl » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:15 AM UTC

zaatar wrote: post #2

... and it doesn't work quite right on the iPad. There is a hovering menu bar which is fully blank. I'm surprised they didn't test the site on the iPad before pushing it live. [Edit] Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DxTKY.png

Strangely enough, Apple's site is not particularly well suited for either iPhones or iPads.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by cskau » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:17 AM UTC

Anyone else seeing the graphical glitch with the search field upper left ?

I'm running Chrome on Ubuntu. But still - they could at least have tested it a little before launch.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by terhechte » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:19 AM UTC

In general I do like it. The search bar (top right) with the gradient background isn't good usability though. It looks as if it is deactivated. It turns white when one clicks it, but how many people don't click it because they think it is disabled?

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by saint-loup » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:19 AM UTC

The gradient over the search field is kind of weird, more button-y than field-y.

Something I like : no more horizontal scrolling on the Mac page. It also loads faster.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by pg1 » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:23 AM UTC

I like it. Menu bar is thinner and fonts are smaller. Also auto suggest on search is really cool.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by tesseract » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:35 AM UTC

saint-loup wrote: post #15

The gradient over the search field is kind of weird, more button-y than field-y. Something I like : no more horizontal scrolling on the Mac page. It also loads faster.

Well, it... is kind of button-y in that something happens when you click on it. (Or tab into it - glad to see that at least keyboard usability did not suffer.)

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by spitfire » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:36 AM UTC

nfg wrote: post #11

spitfire wrote: post #4

I don't like it. The light grey worked and seemed very Apple. This dark black seems a little too serious and the menubar seems somehow incomplete. I'm sure they'll still sell millions of whatever they're selling though. and I'll still buy their stuff.

Could be a sign of a shift to a darker tone in OSX Lion as as been rumoured in the past.

Darker tone? OSX is going to go all futuristic-holocaust on us? "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...."

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by hugh3 » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:49 AM UTC

spitfire wrote: post #4

I don't like it. The light grey worked and seemed very Apple. This dark black seems a little too serious and the menubar seems somehow incomplete. I'm sure they'll still sell millions of whatever they're selling though. and I'll still buy their stuff.

I'm not seeing any dark black -- am I not getting the same thing everyone else is getting?

Honestly if there's a difference from the old version I don't see it myself.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by revorad » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:49 AM UTC

I really don't like the app store design. Light gray text on a white background is nearly impossible to read. And why oh why do they have horizontal scrolling for the app screenshots?