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Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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

I seem to remember a previous iteration having the auto suggest as well, then it went away. I think it was when they first put the search field at the top of the page.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

#22
I had to buy a mac OS/X DVD a week ago and I was actually surprised by how clean the (old) site feels compared to almost every other e-commerce site that I use.

The only thing that was slightly cumbersome was the checkout process but otherwise it was pretty smooth.

What bugged me is that I had to take 'snail mail' delivery instead of being offered the option to download an ISO image. There absolutely is no added value in having to wait for a week for delivery of something that could have been done instantly, no fun when you're computer is broken and sitting there doing nothing for longer than necessary.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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post #13

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.

Looks like a known bug in Chromium at least: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29427

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Someone have a before and after? Maybe I just don't spend enough time on apple.com, but this looks the same to me, except maybe a different color on the menu bar.

I agree with that. I have seen apple.com a few times when I want to drool and this seems strikingly similar. But one thing is, when you have such a minimalistic design, the change in menu bar is a major change.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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I'm not sure I'm a fan of this new layout. The old one tended to have plenty of whitespace to give it a clean, open feel. This more boxy one looks pretty cramped in my browser (Firefox). I think they have a few issues with content/navigation as well. Certainly they could do with someone more internationally aware checking the wording, because to those of us who don't use the bizarre US date order, "Coming Februrary 1…

As far as I can see the general layout is unchanged.

What has changed is the navigation bar and the product selection boxes on the Mac and iPod pages. (You previously had to scroll horizontally, now there are tabs.) It could be that they also de-cluttered those two Mac and iPod pages and removed a few elements. I’m not sure about that. What I am sure about is that all the product pages are unchanged. (Apple’s product pages tend to be heavily customized. They don’t follow one layout, they can be very different.)

So, no less whitespace than before.

(Apple.com is the US website, not Apple’s international website.)

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