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TechCrunch Redesign Live
- jonursenbach 15y agoNew logo reminds me way too much of Minecraft. I keep looking in the new logo for a hidden Creeper.
- boyter 15y agoI was about the comment with the exact same thing. It does look like a creeper to me.
- joshmlewis 15y agoYep, I thought of the same thing.
- joshes 15y agoI cannot really help this inescapable feeling that the new design is somewhat obnoxious. It's just... there's something about the design that I just cannot get past. This will only serve to further decrease my already declining viewership.
- timtadh 15y agoPerhaps it is the sticky "menu" bar on top. Is it just me or do other people really despise these sticky bars that people like to stick on the top/bottom of their sites.
- jerrya 15y agoI desire to buy larger and larger monitors, am forced to buy HD aspect ratio monitors, and then find all these webmasters spooging all over my monitor with their various toolbars and spambars and crapbars and wastebars and iebars until I eventually get back to a 320x240 pixel screen. When I see these toolbars, I just want to reach out through the intertubes to find the developer and cut off his damned fingers to prevent him ever writing any more code... Yes, it's just you. :)
- RossDM 15y ago+1 for Richard Mlynarik reference and 'wastebars'.
- CoffeeDregs 15y agoI despise the valueless menu bars that people stick to the top/bottom of the frame... e.g. those dumb social bars... But the idea that a menu bar moves up/down with the page content is a holdover from print media. A tasteful and useful menu bar that sticks to the top of the frame is a very useful piece of UI; why is the world should I have to scroll to the `top of the page to find the menu? GMail does it nicely. I think the Techcrunch bar is actually pretty useful (even if I think the rest of the design is straight 1996).
- rockarage 15y agoYes it has loud obnoxious green look, techcrunch used green before, but I never payed much attention to it until now. And the headlines font size is loud with a Huffington Post attention whoring feel. That said, I agree with others, the nav bar is cool as well as hiding / restyling the share widgets. Still too much green and loud type.
- espeed 15y agoThe logo is emitting a lot of green noise. And there's a lot going on in the overall design -- it doesn't evokes emotions that compel me to stay.
- newtonapple 15y agoI ain't gonna lie. I vomited a little when I first saw the new logo. The pixelated green is seizure inducing. Congrats TechCrunch, you've just topped the Gawker redesign. Keep up the good work.
- ary 15y agoTo be fair the Gawker redesign absolutely ruined the usability. If you don't like the look then ok.
- antidaily 15y agoHoly shit. It's terrible. That said, I like the sticky navigation bar.
- swanson 15y agoYa that nav bar is slick!
- pg_bot 15y agoI wouldn't have a problem with the logo if it didn't seem so far out of place with the rest of the design. It's a shame because the navigation bar looks really good once you scroll down the page.
- WrkInProgress 15y agoPro: The Share "widget"'s options are hidden, so I don't have to see 45 options next to each headline. Cons: The logo just doesn't seem right. Not a fan of the new header.
- ssclafani 15y agoThe feedback on this redesign should serve as a reminder for startups: Ignore all feedback after a redesign and look at your metrics. Your metrics will tell you the real story whereas feedback will almost always be negative.
- mkr-hn 15y agoIt's not a good idea to myopically focus on anything. Including data.
- windsurfer 15y agoOr advice.
- keyle 15y agoOk so the new design is much faster. Great, that's awesome. But I feel completely disgusted by this. Default html colours with arial font-face would be better than this.
- arkitaip 15y agoThe logo looks like a minecraft creeper caught in mid-explosion. http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/3/d/Minecraft_Creeper_Wallpaper_by_LynchMob10_09.jpg http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/3/d/Minecraft_Cre...
- darwinGod 15y agoIt is hard on the eyes- With that shade of green, reading anything is a pain.
- kacy 15y agoTwo reasons why I'm still not digging TC's site design: http://kacy.me/8NzH http://kacy.me/8NzH & http://kacy.me/8Mpa http://kacy.me/8Mpa That's a cache version with ad block on (use it for testing sites). Maybe if they turned off the linkedin and facebook integration, the site would load faster. I guess they get a lot of traffic from that though. :-/ I'll still stick to reading articles in Reeder.
- citricsquid 15y agoThe actual article display isn't that bad, I can read it quite well, but the overall layout is (as others have said) very obnoxious. The most important part is the articles and they haven't butchered the content finding like gawker did. It'll take some getting used to I assume but I guess we can wait and see.
- jdp23 15y agoOh look, their list of "Hot Topics" includes "Quora".
- InfinityX0 15y agoMy first thought is that social sharing should go down dramatically. A lot fewer social CTAs on each post, and the left buttons, although aesthetically pleasing, don't really incite the user to share. Mashable is an example of the in-your-face sharing buttons allows social sharing to go through the roof, and also allows for immediate social proof that hey - other people thought this article was cool, too.
- malnourish 15y agoI have to wonder why they haven't added a "+1" button.
- eggbrain 15y agoMy thoughts on it: 1) Two clicks for search needs to go. Why can't they just get rid of the white space from the logo and display the search at all times? Make search easy, not hard. 2) I don't like being asked to share an article before I even see the title of the article. 3) Images under "popular posts" get maimed and look bad (low resolution/pulled horizontally) 4)Im not a huge fan of the pixelated logo, but to each his own 5) The headlines on the articles seem quite... Big. They got some things right, but it still seems like a first draft rather than a final copy. EDIT: They already fixed the images under popular posts, so they are already working on it. Maybe there is hope yet!
- rglover 15y agoI mean, I hate it, but whatever. It's still TechCrunch.
- bretthopper 15y agoI don't even have an opinion on the redesign because their site performance is still terrible. Techcrunch is probably the most sluggish website I regularly visit on my Macbook air. Bringing up Firebug/Web Inspector is horrifying.
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- wiradikusuma 15y agoTwo immediate impression: - the logo. oh my gosh, it's hurting my eyes! - there's empty space next to Share button, why not expand it so users dont need 2 extra click (open the share list) to share?
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- guiseppecalzone 15y agoThe "Share" button needs to be re-aligned. But, maybe it was placed that way intentionally, to call it out and increase sharing. I suppose attractive != effectiveness.
- RyanKearney 15y agoOver 300 HTTP requests required to load the new techcrunch. While this is much better than the previous ~800 HTTP requests on the techcrunch homepage, it's still pretty ridiculous.
- ams 15y agoThere is something wrong !!!
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- desaiguddu 15y agoI wish green theme lasts temporarily..
- hoodoof 15y agoI rather like it.
- trotsky 15y agoThe way the copy reads it immediately makes me suspicious tech crunch did a redesign solely to milk the "outrage" publicity. It's really not that far beyond linkbait.
- matthall28 15y agoWell, it's better then the Gawker redesign
- MartinCron 15y agoThis, as well as the Gawker redesign are just more proof that you should banish the word "redesign" from your professional vocabulary.
- quadrant6 15y agoAn outdated look that shouldn't have got past concept stage. More importantly though, it still feels super sluggish for me in the latest version of Safari. I won't be visiting anymore that normally do, which is about 1-2x a month, despite knowing there is some decent content there.
- keke_ta 15y agoWhen I visit the TC, I thought I visited any other site.
- verdum 15y agoMy lord. I sure hope this is a late April fools joke or something.
- marknutter 15y agoThe none pixelated logo is actually pretty cool. The additional higher res pixelation looks like video game vomit, though.
- fezzl 15y agoThe logo is horrendous.