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TechCrunch announced the Ustream.tv redesign yesterday, and after having a look at it I’m left with a few questions. The new design is definitely an improvement (I won’t fight that) and looks much more mature than the previous version, which seems great for their target market. But it still seems a little rough around the [...]
The fine folks over at ManagerAssistant.com came to me and asked if I would help them with a critique of their two year old site. They have a strong product, yet conversions from their website seem to be dropping so maybe I can help them out some with my keen designer eyes. While I will [...]
If you have read this site long enough you know that rarely is there an original idea on the web anymore. Instead what you get are sites that either take an idea and make it better or just give you the idea with some fanciness behind it. Best Party Ever is a party planning site [...]
I love coming across a new site to see some company try something completely different than what we are used to seeing and that’s the feeling I get when I visit the latest search engine to hit the web, Snap.
They have taken a different approach with regards to search engine box placement by vertically centering [...]
If you want read a design critique of the new TechCrunch redesign I suggest reading Mike’s thorough analysis and thoughts. I would like to say though that after everyone is done analyzing and critiquing with all the negative feedback it won’t mean jackshit to TC’s bottomline. People will still read the site and continue to [...]
I think the time has come where Google has lost its shine. No longer are the products and services that Google launch breath-taking or really newsworthy in my opinion because they all seem to follow Yahoo’s path. Gmail and Google Maps were a step above and beyond what was currently available, but besides that what [...]
Yesterday we launched with a new homepage and Mike offered his thoughts with regards to why the changes were made. I have spent the last 2.5 years on this site critiquing and bashing a lot of other sites on the web and I only thought it would be fair to have a go at our [...]
Pete Davis, the Chief Marketing Officer of ClickCaster, Inc., wrote to me last week asking if I could evaluate their site which is a competitor of Odeo (my take on Odeo). While my schedule doesn’t allow me to go as indepth as I would like with an evaluation (money talks ;-), I thought it would [...]
*Note: If you don’t know who Edward Tufte is I highly suggest you read up on him and buy all of his books.
Craiglist, like MySpace, is a site many people use because that’s where everyone else is at. The community makes it worth the hype it receives, but besides the community and some viral marketing [...]
Today Scott Kidder informed me that Gawker released a new redesign of their tabloid site Sploid. I always like hearing about redesigns, especially when they concern major properties so I was very excited.
However, nothing could’ve prepared me for this one.
Now I love innovation and trying new things on boring old blog designs. The original Sploid [...]
