While not everyone loves the Tumblr dashboard redesign, they do keep adding really cool little details to make life better for people using it. Among recent additions: Inline links and source-code editing (the latter shown above; note the color-coding). These tweaks are under the radar and may not be noticed by a lot of people—but totally appreciated.
Tumblr redesign update: Hearing reports that the pinned post, along with the older highlighted post, is dead. The pinned post, while used somewhat heavily over the past few months, drew much frustration from end users (and um, Newsweek), though the highlighted post never truly caught on with users. The feature change was first noticed by comedy writer and Tumblr user Julie Klausner, who (in a tweet yesterday afternoon) asked why she was no longer able to pin.
One of the designers of the new UC logo explains why he thinks it’s exciting and necessary.
A lot of folks aren’t in that camp (at least 33,000, according to Change.org), leading to personal attacks like this one on UC’s creative director, Vanessa Correa:
It’s also a heavy topic of discussion on Reddit’s Berkeley community. What do you think of the logo?
(If you’re curious, BTW, Fast Company has a piece explaining the reasoning on the change, which was part of a complete rebranding.)
USA Today: Wow, they sure gave that redesign a giant blue circle for a logo. (More info on the change here.)
Remember this headline? Yeah, that was great. Anyway, USA Today decided that it, too, deserves better, and is planning a major redesign with a new logo and the whole kit-and-kaboodle. The paper is timing the launch of the redesign to coincide with its 30th anniversary September 15.
Remember how that design firm recently did a spec redesign of Wikipedia to show what they think could be done with the product? Strangely enough, an actual Wikipedia designer was making a redesign pitch of his own around the same time. Compare and contrast. (via Hacker News)
Chuck E. Cheese — the rodent — is getting a makeover
I remember begging my mom to take me to ShowBiz Pizza Place when I was a kid. I guess they’ve got to do something to get people in the doors these days.
When I was a kid, the pizza was enough. We didn’t need no fancy-schmancy 3D. Animatronics all the way.
Apple’s desktop computers will get redesigned, says anonymous Apple exec
After today’s incredibly tiny update to the Mac Pro, you might be wondering if Apple plans to kill off the venerable desktop. Apparently, that’s not the case. New York Times technology columnist David Pogue spoke to an anonymous Apple executive who said that the company’s desktops are getting a makeover, perhaps by 2013.
This report might ease the worries of some Mac-heads, including Instapaper founder Marco Arment, who bluntly claimed earlier today that “The message is clear: Apple doesn’t give a s*#( about the Mac Pro.” The Mac Pro hasn’t had a full redesign since its release in 2006, and its basic look and feel is similar to the Power Mac G5, a machine that initially came out nine years ago.
TechMeme redesigns, scores headline of the day: ”Techmeme has redesigned. Drudge Report is now indisputably the web’s ugliest news site.” We’ll give them that; it’s clean, but the font is not a good one for heavy news-reading.
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So, uh, Slate redesigned today. They had to. Their old CMS was five days older than the original iPod. But as fans of the site, we see a bit of a problem. It’s the front page. The inside pages aren’t so bad. But the front seems to have crammed as much as possible into every square inch of space. White space is a tad lacking. Slate is a great site known for its relatively clean design. This flies in the face of that. We’re worried. What do you all think?
We rate this redesign a 9.5. We liked the old design a lot, so this was a little unnecessary, but not bad by any means. EDIT: They’re also doing a mobile version of the site, which it’s sorely needed for a while.
Flickr got a front-page redesign: It’s a bit of a change from simplistic-yet-photo-heavy approach, but it’s not awful by any stretch (and it appears to be mostly to introduce new users to the service, as the current design is basically the same once you’ve logged in). What do you guys think about Yahoo’s photo-focused jewel?
Here’s a photo of the new Volkswagen Beetle, updating the design of the last model, which has been around since the late ’90s. It looks … aerodynamic. Clearly, someone forgot that the Beetle has to look lumpy. That’s what the Beetle is! A lumpy car! source
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