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Aren't buzzwords like this just as alienating as tech jargon? I know everyone does it, but why does she have to speak in marketing/design jargon, and not plain English?
Agreed. Apple executives speak in perfectly plain English and they are the most valuable tech company in the world.
For example, there is a news story currently in circulation about Clive Davis and Kelly Clarkson. I personally like Kelly's music but I don't care about this feud so I just ignored it in my yahoo so hopefully it won't show up again.
I 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.
Going directly to http://au.yahoo.com/ doesn't show the upper search box.
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"We made it less crap." Or, actually usable: "We gave it a makeover."
"We cleaned up the design, made the pictures bigger and the text easier to read. And we added gadgets to the side so you can stay up to date on your stocks." (As though the average Yahoo reader owns individual stocks?)
I 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. http://i.imgur.com/Z0EH12W.jpg
Infinite scroll breaks the metaphor of the sidebar! The indicator no longer tells me how much more content there is on the page. I've hated it ever since Facebook started doing it with photos.
It's disappointing that Yahoo = Mayer now in the media. I'm sure that plenty of talented people spent a lot of time on this, only to have it sound like Marissa Mayer coded the whole damn thing herself.
One thing I've noticed with the media and financial world is that, when they've been critical of Marissa, it's been because she hasn't made a substantial, dramatic announcement about an all encompassing new strategy for Yahoo. I suspect that's because she doesn't have one and doesn't really need one. Yahoo still has a tremendous amount of popular services and traffic. Make it less of a laughing stock so you can retain good talent. Do some good acqui-hires so you can obtain new talent and just do good smart clean iterations like this. I think that's half the battle for them. The other half is hitching yourself to a growth engine around mobile or content.