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As far as I can see the general layout is unchanged. What has changed is the navigation bar and the product selection boxes on the Mac and iPod pages. (You pre

by ugh 16y ago

As far as I can see the general layout is unchanged. What has changed is the navigation bar and the product selection boxes on the Mac and iPod pages. (You previously had to scroll horizontally, now there are tabs.) It could be that they also de-cluttered those two Mac and iPod pages and removed a few elements. I’m not sure about that. What I am sure about is that all the product pages are unchanged. (Apple’s product pages tend to be heavily customized. They don’t follow one layout, they can be very different.) So, no less whitespace than before. (Apple.com is the US website, not Apple’s international website.)

acqq 16y ago
The parent is right: the boxes are more prominent, the old design looked much "cleaner" and lighter. Compare the US page http://www.apple.com/ipod/ http://www.apple.com/ipod/ with the AT page http://www.apple.com/at/ipod/ http://www.apple.com/at/ipod/ This picture shows the US page details (above) vs the AT page details (under): http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpnv61.png http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpnv61.png (Please refer to the picture if the AT site changes to the new design before you read this.)
- ugh 16y ago
  I don’t think that’s really the old design you are looking at. Maybe a caching issue on your side. Archive.org has sporadic and broken coverage of apple.com but here is how the iPod page looked in September 2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20080613084354/www.apple.com/itunes/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080613084354/www.apple.com/itun... It has a different general layout and is much more cluttered. Product pages are, as I said, unchanged: http://web.archive.org/web/20080503193605/www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080503193605/www.apple.com/ipod... I don’t know about shadows since images on archive.org are broken. Edit: Those boxes already had shadows in 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zurb/3045535592/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/zurb/3045535592/ Must be a caching issue on your side that you are not seeing them. Here is also an old screenshot showing nicely how they de-cluttered the category (Mac, iPod) pages: http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_full/new_imac_design.png http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_full/new_imac_design.p...
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by ugh 16y ago

acqq 16y ago

The parent is right: the boxes are more prominent, the old design looked much "cleaner" and lighter. Compare the US page http://www.apple.com/ipod/ http://www.apple.com/ipod/ with the AT page http://www.apple.com/at/ipod/ http://www.apple.com/at/ipod/ This picture shows the US page details (above) vs the AT page details (under): http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpnv61.png http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpnv61.png (Please refer to the picture if the AT site changes to the new design before you read this.)

ugh 16y ago
I don’t think that’s really the old design you are looking at. Maybe a caching issue on your side. Archive.org has sporadic and broken coverage of apple.com but here is how the iPod page looked in September 2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20080613084354/www.apple.com/itunes/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080613084354/www.apple.com/itun... It has a different general layout and is much more cluttered. Product pages are, as I said, unchanged: http://web.archive.org/web/20080503193605/www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080503193605/www.apple.com/ipod... I don’t know about shadows since images on archive.org are broken. Edit: Those boxes already had shadows in 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zurb/3045535592/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/zurb/3045535592/ Must be a caching issue on your side that you are not seeing them. Here is also an old screenshot showing nicely how they de-cluttered the category (Mac, iPod) pages: http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_full/new_imac_design.png http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_full/new_imac_design.p...
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