How do you like our new look?

By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on April 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Did you notice that the ISN site has a new look? We just launched the update which moves our navigation up to a simple header at the top of each page. We've also made the header and navigation consistent across the blogs, content, forums, etc.

For those of you still wondering what I'm talking about, I'll let you in on a little secret. We're showing the old design to about half of you, and the new design to the other half. Yes, this is intentional. We're collecting metrics to guage the effectiveness of the new design.

Would you like to do me a favor? Let me know what you think about it.  Does it work better than the old design?  How would you improve it?

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By Wei Du (Intel) on April 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Seems users in China would likely to get a old look, I visited and returned with a old world.. http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/communities/old , this is the same site that we have been "familar" with for quite some time. so I am among those 50% that can not peek into the new world anytime sooner. but Bill's blog at http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/16/how-do-you-like-our-new-look/ reveals kind of a new look at the top of the page, all of the elements are there... just like it, what a neat port of entry.

By Michael Shadle (Intel) on April 16th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
It's not because you're from China; it's due to A/B testing. It's a 50/50 split.

If you start a new browser session, your odds will be 50/50 you'll see the new one. You can keep trying until you do. Be sure it's a fresh browser session, since the page preference is associated to your session cookie.

By Rick (Vectorpedia) on April 17th, 2008 at 4:34 am
I like the new look.......its clean and easy to navigate......... a successful design !

By Wei Du (Intel) on April 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
just managed to see the new look, cool and neat.. only that I use a custom color scheme , which does not work well on my IE for the ISN page.

By Michael Shadle (Intel) on April 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Should be fixed now, Wei.

By Svetlana Emelyanova (Intel) on April 17th, 2008 at 11:08 am
The new look is pretty good! Now the site is well structured & new navigation definitely works better. But there's certain problems with readability...

Text lines are too long for reading. Another problem is in right column, I think. When we read, we scan the text from left to right... so, our eyes move swiftly to the end of each line, then skip back to the start of the next. And it may be the right column distracts attention at the wrong moment and prevents eye from returning back left to start reading the next line... As for me, it's really hard to focus on the main block of information. Maybe it'd be better to change columns?

By ISNFanatic on April 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I really liked the old look better - but I'm not sure what is old or new since each time I come back to the homepage at http://www.intel.com/software is is different! Old, new, old, new. The new look is plain and does not have the Intel navigation, which I do not like. Also the blogs page at softwareblogs.intel.com is much harder to read now - the titles of the blogs are not large like they used to be. Everything runs together!

By Jerry Makare (Intel) on April 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Needs more videos...oh wait. ;)

By Ravindra Hoskote (Intel) on April 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Bill, The look and feel is looking very good. I really like the navigation. Its so user friendly.

By Bev Bachmayer on April 18th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I really like it Bill. Thanks,

By Maria Camila Gomez-silva on April 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I love it!
More space for contents, a nice new graphic header, and great distribution for personal info and profile!

:)

By Amelia Barton (Intel) on April 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I agree w/Jerry ... more videos on the community pages. :-)


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