Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the squeezing-the-pipes dept.
techmuse writes "YouTube has introduced a new, higher-resolution text mode for video. The new text mode is far more efficient than their previous high-end, high-definition offering, and should bring entirely new levels of realism to streaming web video!"
Gotta hand it to them. They usually manage to make their joke something entertaining rather than the boring stuff most other sites tend to come up with.
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", which is going to piss off tens of millions of people by itself). The comments are extremely hard to read, there are no borders, there is no colour, there is no real element grouping, ratings are binary shit... I'll be monitoring design/usability experts in the next few days to see what they have to say; I'd be extremely surprised if anyone found enough positive things about the new page design.
To be fair, the old design wasn't so perfect, either, but the new one has improved on very few areas.
I think they'll have to roll it back, or redesign the redesign, because the outburst is fairly significant.
Slashdot Mirror
No more flash needed!
OMG! Ponies!
Gotta hand it to them.
They usually manage to make their joke something entertaining rather than the boring stuff most other sites tend to come up with.
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", which is going to piss off tens of millions of people by itself). The comments are extremely hard to read, there are no borders, there is no colour, there is no real element grouping, ratings are binary shit... I'll be monitoring design/usability experts in the next few days to see what they have to say; I'd be extremely surprised if anyone found enough positive things about the new page design.
To be fair, the old design wasn't so perfect, either, but the new one has improved on very few areas.
I think they'll have to roll it back, or redesign the redesign, because the outburst is fairly significant.