ESPN redesigns website.

[Redondo]

ESPN.com redesign: It's a whole new website

 

It's a whole new ESPN.com. Take a look at what we've done as we redesign for the first time since 2009.

 

 

 

It's different for sure. Took a minute to get adjusted. Like it?

[DowningRules]

I'm reminded how little I use or think of ESPN.  I have no reference point to compare it to since I cannot remember the last time I went to the previous incarnation.

[Jobu]

A website redesign on April 1st that's real?

Seems really well designed........ to display ads.

[Thomas]

It runs on the Derek Jeter webengine.

[Jobu]

I assume that is built with a class-based language...

[Tank]

i'm guessing they have dedicated pages for all things yankees, red sox, duke, ray lewis, and lebron, and that it takes at least 15 mouse clicks to finally uncover where they've buried their hockey news.

[Thomas]

I assume that is built with a class-based language...

 

Well done sir. 

[Jobu]

It runs on the Derek Jeter webengine.

It keeps winning awards for being the fastest and most agile, but synthetic benchmarks all say the opposite.

[jsnpritchett]

it's awful.

 

not intuitive.

 

was looking for the cubs record last year, and it took me about a minute to navigate to it from the espn clubhouse page. 

 

Took me about 3 seconds, and seemed pretty intuitive, at least for this specific search.  Hover over the MLB button near the top of the page, click on the Cubs logo, and then when you get to their page, click history.  All past years' records are immediately displayed.

[ettin]

The new website was rolled out on the East Coast yesterday and on the West Coast today.

[yk9001]

Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

 

Woody Allen - Annie Hall

[ukyah]

congratulations. 

 

anyway, there are fundamental gestalt principles behind good information design, web-based or otherwise. espn's redesign is a mess. 

 

 

oh snap, son! check out the big brain on brad.

 

my .02, what primarily drove me away from espn was slow load times, automatic video play, pay articles and singularity of topic issues. the new website seems to have fixed the load time and automatic video play issues, both of which i actually resent, and i'm sure the former was connected to the latter. i don't expect them to go away from their pay model or their focus on manufactured stories, why would they?

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[DW711]

yet undecided

[maximus p]

It runs on the Derek Jeter webengine body fluids.

fyp

[Spirit]

Took me about 3 seconds, and seemed pretty intuitive, at least for this specific search.  Hover over the MLB button near the top of the page, click on the Cubs logo, and then when you get to their page, click history.  All past years' records are immediately displayed.

Settle down, Bill Gates. We're not impressed with your freakish computer skills round these parts.

[jsnpritchett]

Settle down, Bill Gates. We're not impressed with your freakish computer skills round these parts.

 

Ha.  Yeah, trust me, I'm not bragging.  But if we're talking about a design being intuitive, I'm just saying that for the specific search being referenced, the design seems perfectly logical and intuitive to me.  *shrug*

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

I hate change, which is why I'm still an angel fan after nearly 40 years of disappointment.

I see what they are doing. I'll give it a chance, but I like the old layout better.

I don't use it much, but my browser isn't locked on Miamivice.com , Tubbsandcrockett.com , or TrudyandGina.com either.

[Brandon]

Wasn't some of the mass migration to here because of their design changes?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Is it redesigned so that everything is insider content and extra cost?

[Grigori]

ESPN's new pages is just another example of adding a lot of glitz where it's not really needed or wanted.  I like simple pages that load fast, like Drudge Report and Baseball Reference.  So do most people.  Google became popular with its single line first page back when AltaVista was a better search engine. Web designers are always shooting themselves in the foot trying to be too clever.  

[Blarg]

My first look at it yesterday on my phone yielded no articles more than four short paragraphs in length. It was devoid of any real content as far as I saw. Not that the old version wasn't but at least they tried to fill space.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Thumbs up to Grigori for the AltaVista reference. I had forgotten all about them.

[DW711]

For me, the loading isn't the problem...the spacing is just awful...would it kill them to put up some borders around each story?

 

You can click on the Mavs/Rockets recap...keep scrolling down and before you know it..you're on the Heat/Cavs game.

[Guest]

it looks like a shitty blog now. Everytime I visit ESPN I immediately exit out.

[Redondo]

Went to ESPN this morning to look at last nights game info. Auto play video is back on when you click on the game box. No box score option to go there directly instead of having to click on the game summary first. No box score available after I went to the summary page, only a highlight reel option which of course is more auto play