Delicious Redesign
Posted on July 31, 2008 by C Lin
Design, Industry
‘Change is good.’ So they say. Delicious, the number one most popular bookmarking site has a new design which launched today. Luckily, I got a chance to screen capture the old design so I could compare the two. Overall, I like the organization of the new site. You can find things more readily. The links that your friends send are no longer buried. Navigation is much better on the new site. I also like that the bookmark page lumps your links by the date you posted them. I do have a few complaints, however. First of all, why does the new Delicious have to look so Web 2.0? Don’t we have enough of that style of design already? Secondly, I don’t like that the Save a new bookmark link is on the upper right corner away from your bookmarks. After hitting save, you also have to go through a useless screen, that makes you hit ‘next’ in order to label your bookmark. Thirdly, I’m missing the more obvious color delineation from the links you’ve clicked and one’s you haven’t yet. In the new version, it’s so subtle you can’t tell the difference.
Part of why I liked the old design is that it was fairly bare bones. It was more about function and just getting on with life. The new design is a lot more flowery. There are friendly looking icons everywhere and tabs and cute looking design elements. I know this sounds odd coming from a design snob, but what happened to the minimal no B.S. site that I loved? Don’t get me wrong, I do like some of the new features. I just wish they had improved the organization of the old site and left it at that. Maybe I’ll learn to love the new design one day. But for now, I feel like being disgruntled and stubborn.
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Now that I’ve been using the new version longer… I’m leaning more towards liking it.