New Yahoo: Less functionality, harder to read & navigate, another example of amateura design winning over tested usability.
- User testing new 'design' would be a good place to start.. It's clear from the comments Yahoo's truncated limited functionality & clumsy themes are unpopular
- Designer training. Both in aesthetics & usability. The themes are ponderous, gloomily dark and top heavy. The throttled colour choices offer too little contrast , making parts of the text hard to read
- Train staff on 21st century skill sets. Other users have said it well: Let us choose theme colours, emojis, personal pictures.
- The part that should be obvious--ask us what we need & want. It's called consumer research--focus groups, testing & reading feedback (like this listserv)I frankly want to be rid of Yahoo's obtrusive and totally useless 'views'. I know how to categorize my data far better than an algorithm cobbled together by naive a 19 year old gamer and I have better colour sense than a 14 year old with a crayon box.
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