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Facebook's Latest Timeline Redesign Is a Big Improvement

Facebook is always experimenting with new things, new features and new designs. Even after the eventful IPO, Facebook kept "shipping" which is what Zuckerberg asked employees to focus on. It is now testing a redesigned Timeline page that not only looks a lot better than the old page, but is also much more intuitive. ...

23 May 2012
13:51 GMT

Facebook Mobile Gets Revamped with Larger Photos

Facebook has just announced a series of changes brought to its mobile website, with a new and improved design for posts in news feed for its phone users. Following the redesign, users have access to three times larger photos on their devices, while posts have been reshaped to fill the entire screen of the mobile ph...

15 May 2012
04:26 GMT

Bing Gets New, Three-Column Design

Microsoft’s Bing is changing. The New Bing is meant to provide users with the possibility to spend “less time searching and more time doing,” and details on how it does that are now available. The redesigned search engine arrives with a new information architecture that sports a three-column desig...

11 May 2012
05:52 GMT

The New Gmail Design Is Now Being Forced on Users, Here's What You Can Do

It doesn't seem that long ago, but it's been almost a year since Google debuted a grand plan to redesign each and every app and product to make them more beautiful, more user friendly and for them to have a unified look across the company. The roll-out of the new design went with the usual hiccups and cont...

23 April 2012
15:21 GMT

The New Google+ Introduces a Dynamic and Customizable Navigation Ribbon

The new Google+ redesign is rolling out to everyone over the next few days, but chances are you don't have it enabled yet. You can check out a screenshot tour here. One of the big changes is the new side ribbon that acts as a navigation bar. Until now, the main sections of the site, the homepage, photos, profi...

11 April 2012
12:31 GMT

A Tour of the New Google+ in Screenshots

Google+ has just debuted a massive redesign, the first major one since the site launched. The big change is the new layout, Google has moved things about making the navigation a lot more intuitive. The different apps, sections and features are available in a ribbon to the left, which can be customized to your heart&...

11 April 2012
10:31 GMT

Google+ Gets a Massive and Beautiful Redesign

Google+ is about to get a major update with the first big redesign since it debuted last year. The new Google+ moves things around quite a bit and looks a lot more polished than the current site. The biggest change is the left sidebar, or ribbon as Google calls it, which replaces the top nav buttons. The ribbon is f...

11 April 2012
09:53 GMT

Google Experiments with a Hidden Sidebar, to Make Everything Harder to Find

Google is experimenting with ways of making its Search website harder to use. That may be a bit harsh, but it's hard to judge differently the latest Google experiment, one that hopefully will remain just that.Some users are seeing a collapsible sidebar, one that is hidden by default. All they see is an "Everythi...

28 March 2012
06:11 GMT

You Can Switch to Text Buttons in Gmail Rather than Monochromatic Icons

Google is on a quest to beautify its products, set by its dear leader Larry Page. About the time Google+ launched, Google products started adopting the new unified design. Gmail, one of Google's biggest products, adopted it a few months later. As with most of the other design updates, Gmail's new look was ...

21 March 2012
08:11 GMT

Google's Major Redesign of Last Year Could Have Happened in 2007

About the time Google+ launched, Google also made another big announcement, a company wide redesign, starting with the search engine. That redesign is still being rolled out to all Google products and still being updated and tweaked. Several Googlers, who worked on the project from day one, were at the SXSW conferen...

12 March 2012
11:43 GMT

Google Analytics Gets Subtle But Important Redesign

Google Analytics may not be the most famous or the most glamorous Google product, but it's one of the most useful and one of the things the web depends on to work. This explains perhaps the attention Google pays to it - it's been rolling out a new interface for more than a year now and, just as things were ...

2 March 2012
12:41 GMT

iGoogle Gets a Redesign, Adds Full Screen Background Images (Screenshot Tour)

Google's less known but popular with a set of users iGoogle homepage hasn't been a priority for the company, but some updates have been landing recently. iGoogle switched to the new Google design sometime last fall, but the new look also meant the loss of some customization options. Google is now making it...

2 March 2012
08:13 GMT

The New New Twitter Is Finally Here for Everyone

Twitter is known for its long roll-outs, but it seems that it's bent setting some new records. The new new Twitter, which it unveiled last year, has only now been rolled out to everyone, several months later. While some people have had the redesigned Twitter since December, others only received it these last fe...

16 February 2012
05:54 GMT

YouTube Updates the 'Browse' Page, the Video Editor and Fixes the Video Manager

Not so long ago, YouTube rolled out a major redesign. The new look, inspired by the new 'beautiful' Google design, also came with a host of new features and changes. But YouTube wasn't done, it's one of the largest websites in the world and there still were some sections that needed some attention...

27 January 2012
06:31 GMT

YouTube Introduces a Huge New, Dynamically-Resizing Player (Screenshots)

YouTube is not done redesigning the YouTube player, it started testing new buttons and a slightly new look earlier this year, but it has now introduced a new, dynamically resizing player. Specifically, the size of the 'large' player is no longer fixed but adjusts itself to the size of the window, more accu...

26 January 2012
08:33 GMT

Vimeo Debuts Major Revamp, the First Since Launch in 2007

Vimeo has just unveiled its first redesign since launch, almost five years ago. It's a major revamp, the site has been rewritten from the ground up and everything about it is new, though there's plenty of the old design being used as inspiration.The new Vimeo isn't yet available to everyone, it's ...

24 January 2012
13:11 GMT

iGoogle Is About to Get Another Redesign and the Unified Google Header

Google is now testing an updated iGoogle homepage. The customizable homepage has already seen an update last year, bringing its design up to date with the rest of Google websites. But Google is not done yet, it seems, it is now testing an updated design that further integrates some of the new ideas, like the unified...

23 January 2012
06:31 GMT

Apple Gives Its Support Site a Makeover

Apple has issued a redesigned Support site today, and while the changes may not seem major at first glance, many customers will be delighted with some of the new functions set in place by the backend developers in Cupertino, California. After leaving the Support / Downloads section unattended for over a month, this ...

18 January 2012
17:01 GMT

YouTube Unveils a Redesigned Player

If you thought that, with a huge redesign in place, YouTube would be done changing the site, well, you were wrong. Google and YouTube never stop improving or at least changing their sites. The latest example is a new YouTube player which has been enabled for some, probably all users, both on YouTube but also on othe...

12 January 2012
11:31 GMT

Twitter's New Embeddable Tweets with Inline Photos and Videos

Twitter is rolling out a brand new version of the site. It's been available for a few weeks now, but not all users have it enabled yet. Twitter is working on that, but, in the meantime, it's touting some of the new features that come with the new design. Twitter hasn't only revamped its site, all of t...

6 January 2012
11:01 GMT

Top 10 Google Announcements of 2011

With the year coming to an end, everyone is looking back and summing up 2011. Google looked at its own backyard to see what the most popular subjects of the year on its official blog were. The major redesign and the launch of Google+ are among the most read items, but there are a few surprises in there as well. "On...

3 January 2012
13:41 GMT

For the Sake of Unity, Google News Has Integrated the Search the Web Button

Over the past several months, Google has been working on revamping the looks of all of its products. The new design is supposed not only to look good, but to also feel familiar no matter what site you're on. All of this and have to be practical at the same time, of course. Being such a large undertaking, it...

22 December 2011
06:02 GMT

The YouTube Cosmic Panda Design Is Dead

The Cosmic Panda is dead. YouTube's sleek redesign from last summer, which was launched as an opt-in experiment, has been terminated now that YouTube has embraced its new design, partially inspired by Cosmic Panda. While Cosmic Panda completely altered YouTube and provided a new look for most of the pages, the ...

16 December 2011
10:38 GMT

How to Get The New Twitter Before Anyone Else

The New Twitter was introduced last week. Even though Twitter made a fuss about it, most people still don't see the latest design and won't for at least a few more weeks, as the site is taking its time rolling it out. But there is a way of checking out the new version straight away, update or install the T...

15 December 2011
07:51 GMT

Check Out the Brand New YouTube Video Manager

By now, everyone has noticed the new YouTube. But the site is getting a revamp behind the scenes as well, the Video Manager page has gotten a new look as well.It's still in testing, meaning that it's not yet the default, but you can start testing it right away. The new page comes in line with the new YouTub...

10 December 2011
11:01 GMT

Brands Will Get Custom Twitter Pages with the New Design

Twitter has launched a brand new redesign for its site and all of its apps. It's probably the biggest so far, clearly it is in scale, and it looks, from a strictly visual perspective, rather good.What's interesting about the new site is that Twitter is introducing a new type of profile page, mostly for bran...

9 December 2011
12:51 GMT

Twitter Debuts Huge Redesign of Its Website and All of Its Apps

Twitter has just announced a huge redesign of its site, both the desktop and mobile one as well as of its mobile apps. Even TweetDeck is getting a fresh new coat of paint.One of the big focuses was on getting Twitter to look the same no matter where you used it. The second focus, it seems, was on making it a lot more...

8 December 2011
13:12 GMT

Major YouTube Redesign Now Available to All

YouTube is officially rolling out its new redesign to everyone. The big emphasis is on the new homepage and channel pages, but the entire site has been updated, with new colors, buttons and so on. The main goal of the redesign is one that YouTube has been working towards for a long time, making YouTube more of a des...

2 December 2011
05:13 GMT

Guide to Enabling the New Integrated Universal Google Navbar

Google has just unveiled a brand new look for the navigational bar which actually gets rid of it altogether. Its features are now integrated in the search/header section that used to be below it. Google has been working towards unifying the looks and functionality of its sites, the new navbar is just an extension of...

1 December 2011
05:22 GMT

Christmas Offers Launched for ZeuS Customers

The Ghost Panel, utilized by cybercriminals who rely on ZeuS to complete their malicious campaigns, now benefits from a graphical redesign that tries to bring the Christmas spirit into the black hearts of hackers. Underground forums now advertise the classic Ghost web panel with a deferent skin that says “Merr...

29 November 2011
14:41 GMT

Get the New, Experimental YouTube with This Cookie Trick

YouTube is moving forward with the new design and is testing it more widely. It's also making tweaks and adding new features as it gets closer to a broader release. First came the gray background and some redesigned elements, but the new design didn't start coming into its own until the new, vastly updated...

21 November 2011
08:55 GMT

Check Out the Experimental YouTube Homepage Now in Testing

YouTube is currently testing a new design. It seems to be rather serious about it, since there are more and more sightings in the wild and the design is evolving constantly. It is starting to look more and more like Cosmic Panda, which can only be a good thing, but on the whole it is much more similar to the current...

14 November 2011
07:00 GMT

YouTube's Experimental Gray Design Gets a New Favicon, New Player (Screenshot Gallery)

YouTube is continuing to evolve its latest experimental design, that some users are seeing in the wild. Inspired by the much more coordinated Cosmic Panda experiment, the new testing YouTube features a lot of gray but is much more similar to the current design than Cosmic Panda.In fact, the experimental YouTube featu...

11 November 2011
14:41 GMT

Xbox Website Gets Redesigned Ahead of New Dashboard's Release

Just as Microsoft is getting ready to deploy a brand new dashboard update for its Xbox 360 console, the company confirmed that it's going to redesign the Xbox.com website, making some major changes to the My Xbox section, which will be transformed into a 'Social' category, as well as implement new feat...

9 November 2011
03:13 GMT

Google Explains Its Dynamic Resizing Options in Gmail, Google Docs

One of the big features of the new Google design, being applied to any and all products, is the ability to control display density, i.e. how much you get to see in a page and how spaced out everything is. This doesn't work for all products, but it's great for things like Gmail or the Google Docs documents l...

8 November 2011
05:51 GMT

YouTube Testing/Rolling Out New Gray Design

You may have noticed that YouTube is a little bit grayer all of a sudden, a lot grayer actually. In that case, you're one of the lucky (maybe) users with whom YouTube is running a new experiment, though there are a lot of people seeing the changes, so it may be an early roll out.YouTube is updating the look of t...

4 November 2011
06:28 GMT

The New Gmail Is Here with a New Look, Streamlined Conversations, Better Search

Google is ready to unveil the redesigned Gmail. It's been working on it for months and the brand new design is finally ready to roll out. The changes go beyond skin deep, there's a revamped search box, a new conversation view and other improvements.Google unveiled a preview of what the new Gmail could look ...

1 November 2011
12:56 GMT

Experimental Google Search Uses Icons Instead of Links

Google is getting ready for the next stage of its new design, it plans to get rid of the navbar entirely and tweak some of the changes it made recently. It's no surprise then that it's been testing quite a few experimental versions of the updated design, especially for the search page to see what works.One ...

1 November 2011
11:21 GMT

Revamped Google Reader Finally Debuts, a New Look and Google+ Integration

Google has debuted a new version of Google Reader, the first major update in many years. For a product that doesn't see a whole lot of use, any change to Reader sure does seem to stir up people and the last one is no different.There are two big changes in this new version, the first is the obvious one, the visua...

1 November 2011
05:11 GMT

Twitter Testing New Expandable Timeline, with Inline Replies, Media

Twitter has paid more attention to the site in recent months. It unveiled a massive redesign a year ago that turned Twitter more into an app than a website. Now, it's expanding, literally, on that concept with a new timeline in testing that enables you to see a full conversation around a tweet, or media in a twe...

26 October 2011
10:14 GMT

Google Calendar Gets a New Color Palette to Go with the Brand New Design

Along with adopting the new Google design, Google Calendar has updated the set of colors available to label different events and calendars. That may not seem like much of a new feature, but the visual cues are very important in a calendar app.UI ergonomics are probably more important in a calendar app than in others ...

22 October 2011
09:18 GMT

In Preparation of Major Redesign, Some YouTube Features Get an Updated Look

YouTube is working on the next generation site, inspired by Google's company wide redesign efforts, but that is still in the testing phase. In the meantime though, it's updating other parts of the site, after all, it's one of the biggest and most complex out there, there's plenty to do. Something...

21 October 2011
08:03 GMT

Google Reader Finally Gets Some Love, a New Look and Google+ Integration

Fans of Google Reader will be very happy to hear that the service they rely on will finally be getting some love from Google after being ignored for a long time. Google Reader will be upgraded to the brand new Google look and some of the most requested features and changes will also be implemented. That said, it see...

21 October 2011
04:11 GMT

Check Out the Brand New Gmail from a Leaked Google Video

Google is getting ready to unveil a brand new Gmail redesign, in tune with the major redesign being deployed across Google sites. A preview version of the redesign has already been in testing and is an optional theme, but it looks like Google is ready to make the switch for everyone, according to a new, leaked video ...

20 October 2011
11:54 GMT

Blogger Is Upgrading Everyone to the New Dashboard, Whether They Like It or Not

Blogger has been undergoing quite a transformation this year. It debuted a brand new dashboard a couple of months back, the biggest evolution to date. It started out slow, enabling users to check out the new look and get accustomed to it, without forcing it on anyone.It's now moving to get more people upgraded t...

18 October 2011
04:50 GMT

Google Working on Dropping the Top Navbar from All Products

A few months back, around the time Google+ debuted, Google unveiled its brand new, company-wide, redesign. The focus was finally on looks as much as on practicality. Since then, more and more Google sites are adopting the new Google look.But the company is far from done. Not only will more sites start to use the new ...

17 October 2011
07:11 GMT

Google's Massive and Bold, Site-Wide Redesign Was Larry Page's Idea

By now, it's impossible that you missed Google's massive redesign. It's the biggest in the company's history, the first time it attempted to have an unified design across all products, and, actually, the first time Google has focused on the looks rather than practicality in history.Any attempt thi...

14 October 2011
14:21 GMT

The Redesigned Google Docs Is Now Rolling Out to Everyone

Google has announced that it's rolling out the revamped Docs to everyone. All of Google's websites have been undergoing a redesign, even those as complex as Docs.Both the homepage, with the document list and the individual editors have been freshened up and updated with the 2011 Google look.Google Docs user...

3 October 2011
18:51 GMT

The Google Maps Pin Gets Modernized, Maps Sports a Fresh New Look (Screenshots)

Google is continuing its massive redesign effort with a second big update to Google Maps. The first time around, the main UI was updated to fit the new Google look, but now, the navigation buttons for the maps themselves have been updated with a simple and more elegant look. "In June we launched the start of a compr...

30 September 2011
05:05 GMT

Google Reader Is Falling into Obscurity, Removed from the Navbar in Gmail

It seems that Google Reader is increasingly taking a back seat at Google. The RSS/Atom feed reader is the most popular tool of its kind, web-based or desktop app, but that's not enough for it to get too much attention from the giant search company. The latest sign that Reader is falling into obscurity is its ...

28 September 2011
11:01 GMT


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