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Paypal Redesigned

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Re: Paypal Redesigned

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Post by btipling »

MattBearman wrote: post #4

Maybe it's just me, but everything is starting to look a "Twitter Bootstrappy" these days...

A more unified experience across the web is a good thing. It improves usability. Imagine if your Windows or Mac UI for applications were all designed differently. That's the web. So please, more people use Twitter Bootstrap.

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Post by cfinke »

potatolicious wrote: post #6

... and nothing has changed once you login. As a PayPal user I'd rather have my dashboard/account views redesigned rather than an overhaul of a landing page I will never look at for more than half a second...

But any time PayPal redesigns the internal pages, every single tutorial on how to actually accomplish something in PayPal becomes useless.

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Post by zinssmeister »

cfinke wrote: post #12
potatolicious wrote: post #6

... and nothing has changed once you login. As a PayPal user I'd rather have my dashboard/account views redesigned rather than an overhaul of a landing page I will never look at for more than half a second...

But any time PayPal redesigns the internal pages, every single tutorial on how to actually accomplish something in PayPal becomes useless.

that shouldn't stop a company of that size to take their product to the next level.

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Post by J_Darnley »

btipling wrote: post #11
MattBearman wrote: post #4

Maybe it's just me, but everything is starting to look a "Twitter Bootstrappy" these days...

A more unified experience across the web is a good thing. It improves usability. Imagine if your Windows or Mac UI for applications were all designed differently. That's the web. So please, more people use Twitter Bootstrap.

And for several large programs they are. As media players have been discussed recently: iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp all use non-standard interfaces. Browsers have varying degrees of deviation from a "standard" program with Chrome being the worst. LibreOffice and OpenOffice before it both have some atypical components. I could go on.

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Post by drewjoh »

potatolicious wrote: post #6

... and nothing has changed once you login. As a PayPal user I'd rather have my dashboard/account views redesigned rather than an overhaul of a landing page I will never look at for more than half a second...

While I'm in complete agreement; as a PayPal user, I'd rather have my dashboard/account views actually load in a reasonable amount of time... never mind a redesign. I've redesigned client workflows (from shipping through PayPal) and changed credit processors simply because looking up a transaction (or _anything_) is like pulling teeth in PayPal. Even when using their API.

Seriously, doing a transaction search results in a "please wait" message that reads: "This may take up to 30 seconds".

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Post by zengr »

nilved wrote: post #3

PayPal's _home page_ redesigned. The interior is still as outdated as ever.

I see an entirely different dashboard after login too. Maybe they are still testing their redesign. It looks very cool.
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