Yahoo! Search blog: An Interview with Paulien Strijland of Yahoo! User Experience Design
Yahoo! Search blog: An Interview with Paulien Strijland of Yahoo! User Experience Design: "Interview with Paulien Strijland of Yahoo! User Experience Design"Q: How is Yahoo!’s philosophy on site design and page layout different form others? Why do our pages seem more complex than others?
A: I actually think many of our new products are quite clean and beautiful. For example our new Local Search product. But it all depends on the purpose of the page or the product. You have to compare apples to apples.
Q: Okay. How about Google’s front page compared to Yahoo!’s front page?
A: Well again, the purposes of both are very different. Besides search, people come to Yahoo!’s front page to do everything from getting driving directions to finding stock prices to sending email. You have to figure a way to elegantly include all the things that people are trying to access on one page. Aesthetically, we have a very different challenge from sites like Google that essentially provide variations on one main product. With the creation of our new front page (now in beta) as well as other key pages on the site, you’ll see that we’re putting even more attention into balancing content with aesthetic
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