Shift + Ctrl + Alt + S Buy.com’s new header wastes no time in mirroring amazon’s new header.
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Zeldman backpedals on HTML Email as fast as he can. It only took him 5 months to figure out he was about to become irrelevant in the web standards community.
I have a hard time he really want from hating it:
“I mean it sucks because nobody needs it. It impedes rather than aids communication.”
To now loving it. Something tell me hating HTML email just became bad for business.
YouTube is starting a major redesign and have made some odd and interesting choices. Amazon recently impressed me by hiding away alot of interface to fit more contest on the screen. YouTube seems headed in a similar direction.
Their new layout definitely looks better then the old one but they have made a choice that does not sit as well with me. In hiding away all those interface elements in dropdown menus they have taken all that new space and put a 300×250 add on the page in place of the 160×600 ad.
Perhaps it’s not glaringly obvious to most people but I can’t look at that page with out imagining a designer told to redo the page so a 300 ad could fit on it. Design that purely motivated by ad placement always make me queasy.
I don’t check myspace every day so I don’t know how new this is but if you log in and look up to the right there is a little link to a new homepage design. I must say it is light years ahead of the rest of the site’s design.
People have been calling for a redesign for years now and maybe it’s finally starting to happen. In general it’s pretty clean and organized. good job myspace design team!
After a long weekend of designing a website for the 48 hour Rails Rumble competition we are pleased with our end result. Yarps are little avatar pets that you can punish or praise.
Voting is open and though you do have to register to vote I would greatly appreciate your vote. There is some stiff competition but with some help I’m hoping we can get a respectable place.
Wow. Del.icio.us is redesigning and Download squad has a great review of it. It’s hard to tell from the smallish screen caps but it really looks amazing. It’s going to be hard to outshine Amazon. There are really some great design showing up on the internet these days.
It took me a second to get over the shock but the new Amazon redesign is really awesome. It really feel like they hidden a lot of interface away and really let users discover features as they need them. hiding interface elements can be one of the hardest things to convince some one to do but it always seems to pay off. I’m glad to see Amazon agrees.
Google Reader went though a little tiny redesign. One of the things they changed was their loading graphic. The old one was very cute and had bubbles coming out of a beaker since the reader is still part of google labs.
The new loading graphic is a smaller graphic at the top of the page. But it look a little odd. Reader has a little shading on the top of the page and google just puts a flat color graphic on top.
With just a little added shadow like I show below I think the graphic really blends in to the page better. A small detail like that can really help polish the over all feel of a site. Google has been traditionally good at consistent feel which is why I think this loading graphic really stands out.
Before |
After |
I really also think the loading graphic is way too close to the drop down box but reader is trying to fit a lot of information on the page and so it might just be a needed trade off for a temporary image.
I assume they changed the graphic in the first place to conform with the company style guide but honestly I like the old loading graphic and I miss it.
Sure it’s a popularity contest but the competition for Best Blog Design at the Blogger’s Choice Awards is pretty thin. The Design community needs to jump in and show them who’s boss. (vote for me! Ick.. clearly it’s using alexa’s old cashed image of my site)
Nothing is worse as a designer then not knowing a color. It’s such a core part of art that most people assume artists know every color. Well here is a great way to learn that names of more colors with a nice little javascript app.
OMG… photoshop can auto crop and straighten photos scanned in on a flat bed scanner! I will not forget this.
New site design. This one is hopefully a little cleaner and feels more open. A lot of the extra info I like is still in the sidebar but it fades out of view until you really want to focus on it. Over all just more focus on the content.
The 2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker is live. What horrible panels do they have planed this year? My god don’t vote for anything that looks like a waste of time.