Amazon site redesign
My boss and my coworker stumbled across an Amazon redesign today. Not wanting to be left out, I kept deleting cookies and reloading until I got into their test.
You can read about the changes here.
So far, I think it's pretty slick. They have an amazing complex information architecture and they managed to simplify it about as well as I can imagine doing. The horizontal features scale up and down pretty well. My only complaint is with the drop-down navigation that relies on hovering over an arrow instead of hovering over the whole nav item -- it's unnecessarily taxing to mouse over such a small target.
Otherwise, I really, really like it. I hope they get the feedback they need quickly so they can roll this out. Nice work, Amazon!
You can read about the changes here.
So far, I think it's pretty slick. They have an amazing complex information architecture and they managed to simplify it about as well as I can imagine doing. The horizontal features scale up and down pretty well. My only complaint is with the drop-down navigation that relies on hovering over an arrow instead of hovering over the whole nav item -- it's unnecessarily taxing to mouse over such a small target.
Otherwise, I really, really like it. I hope they get the feedback they need quickly so they can roll this out. Nice work, Amazon!
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-J
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I've never liked the side-style menus though, as I find myself moving the mouse to the menu and invariably hit the option above or below before I make it.
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But I can certainly see your point too, especially when working with a &*$&^#$! laptop track pad. I think it's a damned if ya do/don't situation.