Archive for 'redesign'
BBC sounds death-knell for left-hand nav
There's a fascinating (and lengthy) post on the BBC's internet blog, setting the scene for a forthcoming 'post-2.0' redesign of its web presence. It's a design geek's paradise - global visual languages, grid systems, typography and colour palettes. Intriguingly, they start their potted history of the BBC website with a screenshot from December 1997. My [...]
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DFID redesigned
This week saw the next phase in the incremental redesign of the Department For International Development's website. It's a much airier, brighter look than before, and with a YouTube video front and centre, plus all those drop shadows, rounded corners and various JQuery effects, it feels bang up to date. There's a new 'top layer' [...]
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Mirror and Telegraph redesigns
The new Mirror website is a dramatic improvement. But then again, all previous Mirror websites have been terrible - particularly the last one, launched just 18 months ago. As Martin Stabe notes, the site's homepage takes an unfamiliar building-blocks approach... which, in this case, I really find myself warming to. It suits the kind of [...]
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Department of Health redesign
The new Department of Health site is a definite improvement; the previous incarnation looked like it had been designed primarily by the technical side (which, indeed, it had). Now it's all colourful boxes with rounded corners and shaded colourings, and it's all the better for it. All this without breaking links, apparently. Well done to [...]
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