Yahoo’s home page is about to get a 21st century redesign. In a blog post published today, CEO Marissa Mayer announced the rollout of a completely revamped Yahoo.com, which she says is “designed to be more intuitive and personal.” The home page overhaul is part of Mayer’s mission to bring one of the Web’s oldest brands back up to fighting condition.
Over the next few days, Yahoo will replace its link-cluttered home page with a more “modern” streamlined user experience. Yahoo’s main properties – Mail, News, Finance, and Sports – remain featured along the left side of the page, but will all-new icons that don’t look they were pulled from a clipart catalog.
A Twitter-like news feed with “infinite scroll” has also been added, replacing the bland headline-filled boxes that took up the bulk of the old design (it has a very Google News feel to it). The news feed can also be customized to display only the categories of content that interest you. Users will also be able to sign in using either their Yahoo or Facebook ID, which will bring up content shared by your friends and contacts. Sharing has also been streamlined, allowing you to post content to Twitter or Facebook from Yahoo with a single click.
The new Yahoo.com features a number of personalized apps, like weather, stock quotes, and Facebook friends’ birthdays. These new features and design will appear in the Yahoo smartphone and tablet apps, as well.
The Yahoo home page redesign is the third overhaul at the company since Mayer took over as the company’s chief executive last July, after making a namer for herself at Google. In December, Mayer pushed out a renovated Yahoo Mail and Flickr, which remains popular among the amateur and professional photographer crowd (if not everyone else). According to Mayer, the Yahoo.com redesign won’t be the last makeover we see from the Web giant.
“Over the coming months, we’ll continue to make changes and improvements,” she wrote, “so today is just the beginning.”
See the difference between the two designs below:
Old Yahoo.com
New Yahoo.com
This new homepage SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want my old one back THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! It would be nice to have the option to have either the old look or the new look but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you refuse to give that option. God forbid we change your snazzy look to something we are all used to using without the infinite scroll which blows, the links to crap I NEVER use and the overall feel of the page is just chaos!!
I agree. The new homepage sucks.
Dan
I hate the new homepage and if an option to go back to the old page isn’t provided I will have to say good bye, there are plenty of other homepages to use instead.
I like the old Yahoo better. Yahoo has been my default webpage. Bring it back or I am never looking at it again.
Do not like the new homepage! Too much, too long and I don’t want it! Tell me how to get the old page back.
this new page is awful. can no longer get news. the country is going bankrupt and they have to go and ruin a thoroughly customized homepage, now we get this.
I agree. The new homepage blows. Why do they feel the need to change something that isnt broken. I thought the old homepage was efficient and neat. Now its some gaudy, clunky, inefficient webpage. I have used Yahoo for decades but this is the last straw. If they dont provide the ability to keep the old look, I am switching to another browser. I have tolerated enough from Yahoo.
It is not working for me. Half the time I can’t open an item in a separate tab, or any of the previous common functions. Total crap! Either put it back, offer us an opt out option, OR FORCE HER TO STEP DOWN!!!!
I should be written into her contract that she is to be prohibited from doing any more free lance thinking.
She is too stupid.
She seems to be thinking she is still at Google!!!
Hey Yahoo!!! I
If you were worried about losing users before, wait till this ding-bat flies the company into the ground (but not before she exits with her golden parachute)!
Boooooooo, Looks like something Fisher-Price would design for 6 yr olds to use.
Why do they think everyone wants thick fonts, and huge color contrasts and glaring amounts of white space. Not to mention kid oriented purple headers and buttons, Yuk Yuk Yuk. I have used Yahoo as my homepage since 1998 and I am about done with it.
I agree with everyone else. Yahoo needs to return to the previous homepage or they are going to lose a lot of people, including me. Don’t fix something that isn’t broken. They should have taken a poll on their homepage to get their users opinions. Bad move on their part.
Dan
Because the new Yahoo page is endless it eats bandwidth. It was barely tolerable before but now it is unbearable. Marissa Mayer needs to realize that not everyone buzzes the internet at 6 Mps. I have Comcast and it is a slow loading page. Well I’m going to get some Ibuprofen now because that new page gave me a headache just getting to the bottom of it.
Regional Yahoos like the ones in Asia has not changed their homepage yet… I do like the new homepage though. Worth the change!
She should take her pretty little face and all her new ideas and go back where she came from.
I agree