BBC appears to have sent the redesign of their website public last night. When I checked the news page this morning, it looked like this:
My initial impressions are favorable. They’ve retained the main red color, while still making it a bit less forceful. Everything is basically in the same locations, but I can tell that there is more whitespace in the design. Remember, in web design “whitespace is your friend”.
Not having spent much time on the rest of bbc.co.uk, I can’t really comment on it, though it does look like the redesign spans the whole site. I wish I had a screenshot of any part before the redesign. (Though if you just want to look at one, there are plenty on Flickr.)
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Personally, I’m not a fan of the update. I’d like to say I read BBC only because I like their slant and the interesting perspective I get reading a British newspaper as an American…but the truth is, their website design was a huge deciding factor over, say, CNN or NYT.
This feels and looks looser and more sloppy to me. It lacks the tight, concise feeling I had from before. I’m pretty sure I’m alone on this, though.
Just thought I’d add my two cents.
-Karen