A Review of Web Roast: Digg.com Redesign by Aaran Casey

digg... or dugg

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    Aaran Casey

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    digg... or dugg

    Posted on Sep 07, 2010 at 2:54 PM

    I have never really been a fan of digg, and I know it's not what they do, it's that bloody, dumb ass logo...

    Ok so that's probably pretty typical thing from a designer, but the minute I see the logo, I cringe at the rest.

    Personally the first thing that they need to do is look at refreshing the logo, this is "old school" and not in a good way, thus it allows for un-usability on their site...

    see notes...

    For me, it comes down to colors, styles and the logo... unfortunately I can't get excited about a site, when the logo is lacking and the color scheme is naff.

    I am sure that others on CF will point out more valid opinions, but IMHO, none of this works, it just looks like a jumble of styles, all chucked together...

Digg Homepage (V4)

  • 1

    it's their identity

    first thing this need to be changed, then give it some respect! a bit of breathing room...

  • 2

    why all the rounded boxes

    I know that this is more about usability, but these rounded boxes and highlights are just plain... bleugh!

  • 3

    what's this?

  • 4

    Nav rollover

    This is fairly dated and looks IMHO ugly

  • 5

    do they really need the underline

    You can tell it's a heading, it's a different color, I think the underline is ugly and makes the text too squashed up

  • 6

    I know that DIGG is blue

    but there seems too much of it, I think they really need to look at a better color sheme

Step 1 - Follow

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    incosistent styles

    main page or homepage if you like, has a different style, the buttons should stay the same, I like this style alot better, but I have incosistencies...

  • 2

    logo

    still ugly

Step 2 - Find Friends

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    these are the only options??

    wow, ok so there's more than just these 3 in all the social media sites, that people follow... I would of thought, to increase the traffic that they would at least add more options in here

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