New Twitter:
I'm not usually one of those users that jumps up and down in rage each time a website does a layout revamp (point in case, i was more than ok with the recent IMDB look and feel adjutments - except for a few language glitches), but the new Twitter layout? There's a few point i don't quite agree with:
- Sure now you can see two twitters at the same time, one on the left, the other one on the right pane; but on the other hand, when all you have to your right is the usual "following" or hashtags list, it makes little sense to take up that much space when nothing but complementary info. After all, it's half the page.
- Related to this, when you scroll down to see more tweets, you basically end up with half the screen occupied by nothing but a big color bar: the right column is not being well used. In no way am i of the opinion you should take up all the screen with a website - minimalist layouts can be quite refreshing, actually - but the right column just sits there, well... taking up space!
- And the scrolling! When you click on a tweet detail you get two scroll bars?! Not good. From a usability point of view having an iframe with a double scroll in the browser is confusing and not very pleasant from a navigation point of view