The Top 3 Reasons Gawker's New Design Is a Disaster

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by dgurney • 15 years ago

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shawnee_• 15 years ago

Just when we thought the era of epilepsy-inducing website design was over.

  {
  background-color:  ick;
  font-size:  too big;
  margin-left: way too much;
  margin-right: way too much;
  padding:  not quite enough;
  focus: none;
  }

adorton• 15 years ago

Are we looking at the same site? I see a clean, readable page. The navigation is kind of wonky, but the site is far from a disaster.

Maybe it's because I use AdBlock?

ryanclemson• 15 years ago

The way the new design constrains the user is what bothers me most. Having a page that scrolls off the screen makes the content seem much more "deep" than it really is. I think they chose this design to appease the tablet crowd.

dgurney• 15 years ago

Yeah, good point about the scrolling - that choice had to be tablet-driven. Maybe some of my discomfort with the new design is because I'm not used to tablet-style scrolling on my laptop (ie. the content moves but I don't feel like I'm moving down the page). I wonder how this page feels on iPad Safari?

makecheck• 15 years ago

The site's right-hand list only scrolls when I use my mouse's scroll wheel. This list has no visible scroll bar (the window's scroll bar has been hijacked to scroll ONLY the left-hand side).

They took the part of the site that should be the primary way to discover what the site has to offer, and turned it into a frustrating mess that behaves in unexpected ways and artificially restrains movement. What better way to minimize the time visitors are willing to spend on your site.

The Top 3 Reasons Gawker's New Design Is a Disaster

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