I have mixed feelings on this. While I can understand most comments, I must say that it's very, very hard to design blind. By blind, I mean, with no directions,

I have mixed feelings on this. While I can understand most comments, I must say that it's very, very hard to design blind. By blind, I mean, with no directions, or, in other words, with not objectives directly pointed out by Twitter. I think most of the commenters think that I've made a full, complete, functional redesign of Twitter, while it's not (I focused mainly on typography and white space). There are still a lot of decisions I needed to not think about because I didn't have time, neither it was the purpose of the exercise. Think of my realign as a spruce up. Not final, but eye-opening in a certain way :-) Besides, it's hard to beat a design team that works at Twitter's HQ, that knows what they need as a company, have user data, and can test and iterate almost every day. Oh, and thanks HN for making this possible, BTW. :-)