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I like the redesign (it's hard not to), but I had similar misgivings. The biggest issue for me is the mystery meat navigation. The icon that looks like an iPod
by nhebb 15y ago
I like the redesign (it's hard not to), but I had similar misgivings. The biggest issue for me is the mystery meat navigation. The icon that looks like an iPod would intuitively go to music, but mousing over you see that it's for electronics. So the record must go to music, right? No, it's arts and entertainment. So now the visitor needs to hunt around via mouseover to find what they're after. Looking at the screenshot for their mobile app makes me wonder how they handle this effectively without mouseover. E.g., click on the pizza icon and see sushi gift cards? What, where's the pizza?
- lobster_johnson 15y agoYes, that's the problem with using concrete iconography to represent metaphors. They are easily interpreted as being concrete. (Iconography is hard. These days kids are probably asking about those weird icons in toolbars that they don't recognize, and moms and dads need to explain how back in the day we used quaint things like floppy disks and clipboards and stuff; soon they will have to explain about envelopes and magnifying glasses. Apple, meanwhile, just moved iCal back a decade by introducing a leather-bound framing metaphor for the entire app.)