Yahoo unveiled its new home page, its first overhaul since September 2004. You can view it here. It's a little sleeker than the previous iteration if you view them side by side, but overall, what's the big deal here? It's still an evolutionary improvement. I suppose that's all you can do when you're a mass-market service such as Yahoo, but the Web's design development still seems retarded by the dot-com bust of six years ago. No one's really moved the bar for a long time. What do you think of the "new" Yahoo and what's it going to take for anyone to deliver the Web experience we should have had a long time ago?
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Recent Comments | 3 Total
May 16, 2006 at 10:17pm by Blaze
I didnt like this design when i saw a screenshot a few months ago but it acutally works quite well. The currently one actually LOOKS better but I think the new one will work better for the majority of people. It's a no brainer simple design that people will understand easily.
I think we have been taking larger and larger steps towards better web experience with techniques employed by most "web2.0" companies and I think in another 5-10 years the web will be a totally different place, you can just feel the change in the air.
May 17, 2006 at 4:02pm by Carmi
The navigational aids buried within the new interface will make a significant difference from a usability standpoint. Whethere it looks better is a matter of subjective opinion.
Ultimately, I think bloated pages like this will give way to simpler, more user-customizable environments. No one ever really talks about Google's simplistic model, and no one ever really suggests that Google needs to overhaul its interface.
Simple white never becomes obsolete. Nor does inherent customizability. My Yahoo points us in that direction, but we'll need to go through an order of magnitude or two of additional web design growth before we actually begin to see the results.
And I haven't even touched on how these interfaces will need to look and work in the mobile space. A discussion for another day...
May 20, 2006 at 8:51am by Peter
I like this new Yahoo's design. Looks good.