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Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by rokhayakebe »

yalogin wrote: post #11

Interesting. They made it more full of links and images. I was expecting it to feel light (sparse). The dark background makes the whole page look muddled and uninviting.

Perhaps the "best pizza ad format" works with web, we may have to leave out our assumptions because only tech savvy individuals speak of white space, spacing, kerning, and all that other stuff. Frankly many people do not even know the difference between IE and the Internet and a browser?

Edit: If you built a browser aimed at the masses you should just title it "The Newest Internet" or "Get a Faster and More Secured Internet," rather than "Faster and More Secured Browser."

Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by nikatwork »

simonsarris wrote: post #13

Eek. I think, and I stress that this is wrought of my own unprofessional feelings, but I think that in the early days of rich consumer UI (pre-2004 lets say), that rounded corners, gradients and shadows did some great things to design, because they created affordances so that people knew, for instance, that a button was a button. It stood out against the other website clutter and cruft. But we've sort of moved on. I'…

I appreciate the minimalism of flat UI, but I do feel the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction.

Microsoft is the worst culprit here - presenting a text block containing some hyperlinks, but the text is all styled identically so you have to hover the mouse over a word to notice the link. WTF?

Sure, let's keep things clean and minimal, but there needs to be some kind of basic visual language that indicates "this bit is interactive, and this other bit is static content".

Somewhere, Jakob Nielsen is having an aneurysm.

Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by state »

simonsarris wrote: post #13

Eek. I think, and I stress that this is wrought of my own unprofessional feelings, but I think that in the early days of rich consumer UI (pre-2004 lets say), that rounded corners, gradients and shadows did some great things to design, because they created affordances so that people knew, for instance, that a button was a button. It stood out against the other website clutter and cruft. But we've sort of moved on. I'…

I think your comment is apt, and I really appreciate the Doisneau quote. What he describes seems to hold true for design always: the "new" is digested in to the collective consciousness and thereby becomes normal, requiring a new "new".

As a brand Yahoo! has always been far from the edge of visual innovation. I once worked on a pitch for Yahoo! long ago, and it seems to me that the angle is still the same: predictable and dated. I'd say there's no reason to ask for more. If anything, they're probably giving their users what they want.

Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by mynameishere »

I'm just clicking around on them, and somehow I've got the sports site in a state where the scroll wheel scrolls the background images but not the content. Then, after the page finally loads, the left, middle, and right panels all sort-of scroll together, but stop scrolling at different times. That's really messed up. The alignment between them shouldn't change.

Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by dredmorbius »

Y'know, it's not the site design that turns me off of Yahoo.com.

It's the placement of entertainment and sports as the top items on the page.

I don't particularly care what your site presentation is (OK, I lied, I do: it should be simple, out of my face, and distraction-free), but if you show contempt and insult me with your content, I'm gone and never coming back.

Re: Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

simonsarris wrote: post #13

Eek. I think, and I stress that this is wrought of my own unprofessional feelings, but I think that in the early days of rich consumer UI (pre-2004 lets say), that rounded corners, gradients and shadows did some great things to design, because they created affordances so that people knew, for instance, that a button was a button. It stood out against the other website clutter and cruft. But we've sort of moved on. I'…

> But we've sort of moved on.

Talk for yourself buddy. I hate most UIs being pushed nowadays, including ones from Google (G+ is a usability trainwreck) and Apple (iOS7... enough said).

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