I’m supposed to be impressed that the crappy new layout creates a Golden Ratio.
Woohoo!
Let’s be clear about something: Unless a crappy layout cures cancer, it’s still a crappy layout. The pile of dog feces in my yard may form a perfect pyramid, but it’s still a pile of dog feces. It’s a Golden Ratio? Woohoo! It’s still far too busy and places far too much emphasis on the right sidebar when most of my attention is on the latest tweet.
Leave the current Twitter design alone. It ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Especially considering the “fix” looks like an alpha, or at best beta, version of a social networking site that doesn’t know where its users’ eyes spend most of the time. The current design is appropriately minimalist and easy. The “New Twitter” is frustrating and headache-inducing.
15. December 2010 at 9:24 pm
You are 100% correct. Not only has Twitter ruined everyone’s profiles with this horrid new design, they have made the pages less functional. We now cannot have a background image that you can see, that has our logo, for example. There is a huge amount of wasted space on the right, we now display our followers (when this wasn’t what I wanted) and not all of what we follow (which is what I did want). It SUCKS.