PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

"When it came to updating our website, we brought in an expert: You."

As soon as I read that I closed the tab. I thought it was pretty much agreed by now that relying on the "wisdom of the crowd" is useless when it comes to things that require specialised skills like design.

Honestly, I wouldn't trust me to design a nice UI, why on earth would paypal.

Sadly, this is the truth.

It's a lot of work to redesign a website, especially one with lots of weird pages. Makes me wonder of how much of an undertaking that would be... perhaps it would be easier to rebrand, build the same thing in a better way, with their API.

Considering the amount of work that would have gone into redesigning the exterior, I couldn't fathom how much work would be involved in redesigning the logged in interior part, it's not easy to just redesign an entire web application and when you're a site like Paypal the logged in view UI probably doesn't matter so much because you've already succeeded in converting a visitor into a Paypal account holder. When you're a site as big as Paypal, you've got to approach changes like this very carefully. Having said that, it's good to see design updates being made the old design screamed 2001 and needed drastic work.

The new design language speaks "banking" to me.

At one point I was mistaken the site for the American Express site which shares very similar color palette.

The design also "feel" very Square (payment system) like to me.

I am surprised this rebranding effort hasn't touch the brand mark logo yet...