Yahoo Testing A New Home Page Design

Dec 27, 2012 at 9:21am ET by Barry Schwartz

Yahoo appears to be testing a new home page design. Techno-Net captured it on a video and posted that video on YouTube for all to see.

Here are the changes I noticed in this new design test:

Cleaner User Interface
Search Bar Sticks At The Top
Left Menu Bar Is Static
Remove Story Blocks In One Click
Top News Image More Fluid In Transitions Of Stories
Middle Content Section Scrolls
Middle Content Section Has News Filters

Marissa Mayer is very into user interface design and we are expecting a change to the Yahoo home page.

Here is that video:

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Yahoo: User Interface

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http://www.michaelmerritt.org/ Michael Merritt

The news filters are highly reminiscent of Google’s new filter style.
http://twitter.com/cheapsitebab CHEAPSITEBAB

Yahoo gets organized to stick on the horse of Google head but it remains good behind coach it does not look for the innovation which would make tip over the trend, it’s a pity!
robthespy

“Marissa Mayer is very into user interface design and we are expecting a change to the Yahoo home page.”

That made me laugh!

What if she’s also very into ponies? A fun home page w/ lots of ponies???
Mariya James

I think they are going to compete Google. I like the older one home page Yahoo has. So let see how new home page is gonna look alike. :)
http://searchengineland.com/ Danny Sullivan

No. She’s not into ponies.
muhamad fawad

I hope it works.Nice article.Thank you for your post.
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http://www.facebook.com/kkrupp1 Keith Krupp

Bulky and HUGE! Reminds me of a 3rd grade Weekly Ready. Terrible.
Ron

Horrible new interface. Really cant figure out what is what.
http://www.facebook.com/jerry.boehme Jerry Boehme

Don’t like it much. I can’t figure out if I can change colors or not.
http://twitter.com/fergiedurgish Fergie

I HATE THE DAMN THING! I AM NOT A BLIND MORON AND I DON’T NEED YAHOO TELLING ME WHAT THEY THINK I SHOULD BE READING OR WATCHING – THEY NEED TO GET OUT OF THE GOOGLE/FACEBOOK IDEA BEFORE THEY LOSE PEOPLE!
Bob

horrible. horrible. horrible. I have blasted customer service multiple times but i do not see them changing it back. They have lost me until they make it better. It doesn’t have to be a switch back to the old way, but it should at least be appealing to look at. worst web page i have ever seen.