I see that Yahoo! is contemplating a new design. The most striking thing to me about the new design is the realization that I never look at Yahoo’s front door anymore. I still do use Yahoo, all my email is read via Yahoo Mail, I belong to some groups over at Yahoo Groups, and I do check out their news page as well as their MLB baseball news page. But all these I get to from bookmarks. What I used to use Yahoo for was browsing or searching among its directory. Now I notice with the redesign that Yahoo’s once-vaunted directory is barely “above the fold”, that is to say viewable on normal monitors/resolutions without needing to scroll. They’ve also made the type size of the directory smaller. One of these days I predict it’ll be nowhere to be found on Yahoo’s front page. Meanwhile their Shopping box gets larger and larger.
hmmn: musings from the far east(erwood)