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This is one of the most radical changes I've ever seen in a website- it seems like it would have made more sense to add it as a an option, and slowly make it th
by gkoberger 17y ago
This is one of the most radical changes I've ever seen in a website- it seems like it would have made more sense to add it as a an option, and slowly make it the default. At the very least, they should have had a ton of tooltips all over the site. "Remember X feature? You can now do it here." GrooveShark did a great job of having little helpful popup boxes when they redesigned.
I can't think of a single site I currently use that could pull off such a massive redesign. It would be like Digg replacing the whole site with something from http://labs.digg.com/ http://labs.digg.com/. Pretty? Sure. Usable? Not so much. Users don't necessarily dislike the new site, they're just confused.
And nobody likes to be confused.
- wmeredith 17y agoGiving their existing users some direction would have been nice, but what a differentiation they've pulled off in a crowded market music streamers. I used the site a bit last year and wandered away. I use it most of the day Friday while at work, it was the first time I'd been back in months. Basically, I think they may lose some of their current hardcore users, but they'll pick up a whole slew of new ones.
- elblanco 17y agoJust did with me.
- shpxnvz 17y agoIt may be different, but it seems like the last people you want to confront with differentiation are your existing users. I wonder if the best way to release such a radical redesign would be to only default new users to the new interface. Let existing users opt-in to a radically different experience, in their own time.