Looks like only the american site was updated so far. The swedish page still looks like something from the late 90s. Even with the newer look i have a hard time seeing myself actually using it though. I'm not really impressed to be honest, mostly because its long, long, long overdue.
Marissa Mayer Rolls Out a New Yahoo.com
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#12I've only looked at the mobile site on my iPhone, but it looks great. One of my complaints about Yahoo's homepage has always been their gossipy headline news stories in big pictures on the front page. I'm sure that got them lots of clicks with most people, but for me it just made me despise going to Yahoo's website. It looks like they've replaced that with actual news so far.
Really? The top two stories on the news carousel for me are:
1. "Nonstop shouting" at Pistorius home
2. Bruce Lee's mystery fight (which was interesting, but not exactly big world news)
Interestingly, I got the results above when logged into my Yahoo account, which I only use for Flickr and nothing else.
When I visited Yahoo from a blank browser, the Bruce Lee story didn't show up. I wonder if Yahoo guessed that I was Asian and thought that I would like Bruce Lee (well, I guess they were right on that one...)
* The most egregious part of this Yahoo carousel headline was that the story was about how the investigating officer in the Pistorius bail hearing did terribly during cross-examination. He had to admit, among other things, that the "witness" lived 600 meters away from the Pistorius home...which is quite a contradiction to the headline. Whatever merits Yahoo.com's facelift has, this incredibly bad editorial judgment left a terrible first impression with me.
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#13I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other.
http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png
ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
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#14Y U no responsive design?
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#15"Overall it was important to me that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design" Is that really supposed to mean anything? It sounds like buzzword soup. It should kind of go without saying that she wants the site to be fresh, intuitive, and beautiful. I don't think anyone wants a stale, frustrating and ugly website. That said, news…
It's an interview with BusinessWeek. There is such a thing as playing to your audience. She's a techie, we know she is, BusinessWeek's average reader doesn't know or care.
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#16I must be missing something. I haven't been to yahoo.com in a long time, but this looks very similar to what I remember, just slightly updated for last year's style.
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#17"Overall it was important to me that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design" Is that really supposed to mean anything? It sounds like buzzword soup. It should kind of go without saying that she wants the site to be fresh, intuitive, and beautiful. I don't think anyone wants a stale, frustrating and ugly website. That said, news…
This is a fluff piece aimed entirely at nontechnical readers. "Beautiful", "intuitive", "dynamic", "personalizable", and so on are exactly the words this audience wants to hear. They wouldn't understand anything more jargon-y and don't care how the site was built, they just want to know how they're going to feel while using it.
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#18"Overall it was important to me that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design" Is that really supposed to mean anything? It sounds like buzzword soup. It should kind of go without saying that she wants the site to be fresh, intuitive, and beautiful. I don't think anyone wants a stale, frustrating and ugly website. That said, news…
She's not going to rattle off jargon from the technical requirements document. If she did, the Business Week audience would respond with, "What's that supposed to mean? It just a bunch of acronyms and industry jargon."
This is a marketing and PR piece.
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#19I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other. http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
Which page are you seeing this on? When I go to Yahoo!, I'm seeing something completely different.
http://i.imgur.com/OyOvL67.png
Edit -- Going to the Australian site as linked below gives me the search box at the top, and as I scroll down it rolls out a search box stuck to the top of the page. Looks like you might be seeing a rendering glitch where both are visible at the same time when they shouldn't be.
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#20Y U no responsive design?
There are plenty of people who dislike responsive designs for good reasons. It is not the fault of responsive designs itself but the fault of many mobile browsers like Mobile Safari and Chrome for iOS. Here is what I mean:
Responsive websites usually don't let you zoom in by panning. Everything is fixed. If you want the text to be larger you are out of luck on the browsers mentioned above. On iOS you cannot make the font size bigger in Mobile Safari. You can only turn on zooming in the accessibility settings which has its drawbacks as well. I like to zoom in to the relevant parts of a website myself - manually.
If most mobile browsers were capable of letting the user pick a different font size then I would be all for it.