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Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#31

Post by Spittie »

That's awesome! I've been using the beta for a while and it's been much better than the old site.

A bunch of ideas/complains:

- It's awesome that you're showing me a nice map when I search for places/address, but let's be honest, I'll probably need to load it into an online map (OSM, MapQuest, Google Maps) to get directions. So a "open in map" button would be great (yes, I can copy/paste the address and !bang it, but it's not exactly a great experience)

- Sometimes I just want to search for images or videos. Yes, I can search "Images X" or "Videos X", but it's not nice. Also you get the minimized image/video box. I'd add two bangs, !i and !v (those right now alias to Google Images and Youtube, which have !gi and !yt anyway) to search for images/video and that will auto-open the images box.

- Auto-suggestions are neat, but please add an option to remove the "select-on-hover" behavior. It's really annoying to casually move the mouse and select something else.

That's mostly it, otherwise I'm really, really happy with DDG. Thanks, and I wonder what the future will reserve!

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#32

Post by hngiszmo »

The first time I saw that (so called) design I literally hit refresh 5 times to hopefully get that missing CSS file. Having all in just light grey and white doesn't really help finding anything quickly and why hide the path of the url onMouseOut is beyond me.

DDG is my search of choice and the pain induced yesterday is not enough to swap back to google but still, not happy at all :(

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#33

Post by Joeboy »

joosters wrote: post #15
k-mcgrady wrote: post #9

Instead of putting a large box at the top of some search results with what you think I want, why not put it to the side (the way Google does) and make use of the large amount of waster whitespace. I have tonnes of horizontal space available, not much vertical.

This would also mean that the results don't suddenly jump position when the top box loads. Many times I've mis-clicked because of the page flow change.

Yes, this always seemed like a gross usability faux pas to me. If you don't wait for some unknown period after you see the first result, you risk clicking on an unwanted link that unexpectedly appeared under your cursor.

Maybe this is fixed with the redesign?

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#35

Post by gejjaxxita »

Small but surprisingly annoying thing about DDG: I have to hit TAB too many times to start cycling through search results, on google one TAB takes me to the first search result, on DDG it's an unintuitive series of links.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#36

Post by SwellJoe »

criley2 wrote: post #28
joosters wrote: post #13

White text over white images on https://duckduckgo.com/whatsnew - not very readable! (Edit: How odd; a reload caused the page to be displayed differently, with the images below the text and icons.)

Personally I am not a fan of horizontal navigation that breaks scrollwheels. People get through websites with scrollwheels. Forcing people to use non-standard scrolling (left right) AND forcing them to do with click handles... I wonder if they're keeping data on how many people see the main preview and quit out versus how many actually see the other 5+ slides...

I clicked on "press" at the bottom (which happened to be at the bottom left of the screenshot on my device). Thinking it meant, "press me to continue" (which seemed a bit weird). Nope. It's their press page.

So, yeah, the "what's new" page is real clunky, but I haven't, so far, been offended by the changes to their actual design. I haven't used it much since the changeover, but DDG is my primary search engine, so I'll probably have opinions on it soon.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#37

Post by josteink »

gejjaxxita wrote: post #35

Small but surprisingly annoying thing about DDG: I have to hit TAB too many times to start cycling through search results, on google one TAB takes me to the first search result, on DDG it's an unintuitive series of links.

Why tab? You can just use arrow up and down to navigate the search results directly.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#38

Post by gejjaxxita »

josteink wrote: post #37
gejjaxxita wrote: post #35

Small but surprisingly annoying thing about DDG: I have to hit TAB too many times to start cycling through search results, on google one TAB takes me to the first search result, on DDG it's an unintuitive series of links.

Why tab? You can just use arrow up and down to navigate the search results directly.

You've just made me very happy.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#39

Post by wcummings »

hngiszmo wrote: post #32

The first time I saw that (so called) design I literally hit refresh 5 times to hopefully get that missing CSS file. Having all in just light grey and white doesn't really help finding anything quickly and why hide the path of the url onMouseOut is beyond me. DDG is my search of choice and the pain induced yesterday is not enough to swap back to google but still, not happy at all :(

Yeah, I'm working on a userscript to add some hr's or something between the results, its so hard to read!

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#40

Post by kawliga »

hngiszmo wrote: post #32

The first time I saw that (so called) design I literally hit refresh 5 times to hopefully get that missing CSS file. Having all in just light grey and white doesn't really help finding anything quickly and why hide the path of the url onMouseOut is beyond me. DDG is my search of choice and the pain induced yesterday is not enough to swap back to google but still, not happy at all :(

Next time just do a hard refresh. Hold Shift + click the refresh button
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