Yahoo Homepage Redesign
Yahoo has made a change to its homepage which can be considered fairly significant. The internet portal has moved their logo from the left to the center of the page. The logo now sits atop the search utility defying convention. This is kinda like the Google.com classic homepage, however, that's all Google has on that page - the logo and search box. The personalized Google homepage, however, has the logo to the left of the search text field as the page can potentially have a lot of content depending on which gadgets the user adds.
Yahoo's header height appears roughly about the same height as when the logo was to the left, the search text field is longer, and there is a clear "Search" label to the left of the text field in addition to their "Web Search" button label. Not sure I personally care for the new positioning of the logo as I feel it tends to clutter the search utility rather than draw attention to it which is what I am guessing Yahoo was aiming for. Yahoo has previously waffled on this issue and flip flopped the logo from the middle and then to the left and now back to the middle. The previous redesign from Yahoo was circa mid '06.
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Yahoo's header height appears roughly about the same height as when the logo was to the left, the search text field is longer, and there is a clear "Search" label to the left of the text field in addition to their "Web Search" button label. Not sure I personally care for the new positioning of the logo as I feel it tends to clutter the search utility rather than draw attention to it which is what I am guessing Yahoo was aiming for. Yahoo has previously waffled on this issue and flip flopped the logo from the middle and then to the left and now back to the middle. The previous redesign from Yahoo was circa mid '06.
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Labels: usability 2.0, user experience, Yahoo, YHOO
posted by Reshma Kumar at 10:49 AM
3 Comments:
Yes, more like Google but with a lot more clutter below. Google's early design was yet another brilliancy in that I think people were more comfortable with a search page free of advertising.
Doesn't make sense to compare Google's page to Yahoo!'s They are both different animals.
Oh, and by the way, Yahoo! used to have their logo in the middle. It was Google who copied Yahoo! I wish people would get their Google blinders off.
Totally agree. Both points covered in the post. Thanks.
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