redesign

Google has given Google News a bit of a makeover today. Some areas, particularly the section pages have gotten a lot more visual flare.

A couple weeks ago, it was uncovered that YouTube was testing a "secret" beta of a new channel layout. Since then, the YouTube team has been hard at work adding new features and making updates to the new channel design.

Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad it was on the evening news and you had to change them back.

YouTube is testing a "secret" beta of a new channel layout, which as I'm sure they're aware by now it is not very secret anymore. Although, I can't imagine that they expected it would be kept secret for long. According to Read Write Web, some YouTube users were notified about the beta testing directly from YouTube via email. Others had to find out indirectly.

Many Facebook users have complained about recent changes to the social networks design. Anyone who uses Facebook or follows Facebook news is probably well aware of that.

ESPN has launched a redesign of ESPN.com in beta that offers a simpler design and navigation for its users.The new site had been in a closed beta test phase for 10 days to ESPN Insider subscribers and will now run along side the current ESPN.com for the rest of December. The redesigned site will launch fulltime on Monday, January 5 and replace the current site.

 Last night, my husband was logging in to Facebook when he noticed something was different.

There's been a lot of redesign talk lately among big names, most notably Facebook and Yahoo!. Twitter announced today that it was rolling out a new design. This design turns out to be pretty much all about aesthetics rather than improved user experience. Don't worry. If you think the design is missing some things that you would like to see added, Twitter is accepting feedback, and had this to say: