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First of all I followed the old digg UI many times in my designs. It was so compact yet attractive. The new homepage is quite dull in color. Look at the old one how cleverly blue and green was used to have an contrasting effect and the orange and yellow was balancing the color pallete so beautifully. Still loving it. In new one the green buttons are pain to eyes and the flat yellow is looking out of pallete. So much wasted space in left in new one. For a site which deals mainly with content this westage of space is a crime. Even the icons were lot better. Sorry for my harsh criticism but the UI of digg was my inspiration , I am shocked with the new UI.
My suggestions 1.Too much use of blue , need some balancing color. 2.The left panel could be removes and can come in top, with dropdowns if needed. 3. The middle panel should cover the area of the left panel. 4. More space for content. 5. To change the follow button to something unique.
Digg Homepage (V4)
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it's their identity
first thing this need to be changed, then give it some respect! a bit of breathing room...
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why all the rounded boxes
I know that this is more about usability, but these rounded boxes and highlights are just plain... bleugh!
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what's this?
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Nav rollover
This is fairly dated and looks IMHO ugly
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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
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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...
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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
