Comments on: Redesigning TechCrunch – a weblog case study

By: WeBreakStuff » Now that it’s gone: On designing Techcrunch

WeBreakStuff » Now that it’s gone: On designing Techcrunch — Sat, 13 May 2006 15:19:36 +0000

[...] Techcrunch’s previous design, which I’ve done around June 2005, resisted for almost a year and accompanied the blog in it’s tremendous growth to the 53.000 daily readers mark. Despite all its flaws (because there were a few, particularly to my eyes), it was recognized by the industry as a clear exercise on what “Web 2.0″ blog design was about. It’s not up to me to agree or disagree with that statement because I’d probably be biased, but this post clears up on what the line of thought was, on designing the previous Techcrunch (now only seen on the screenshot). [...]

By: Weblogs Work » Adventures in Great Blog Design

Weblogs Work » Adventures in Great Blog Design — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:52:26 +0000

[...] WeBreakStuff has a nice backgrounder on their work redesigning the TechCrunch site. It looks supersweet, but even better are the things they kept in mind throughout the redesign: 1) Rule number 1: KISS. You know, the good old “keep it simple, stupid”. Aim for looks, yes, but only if information is first on your priority list. Stop giving me the “if it looks good, it has to be good” thing, because it’s not always the case. [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:18:11 +0000

Very impressive. TechCrunch is now on my top five must check every 5 mins loop. I’m chruning through the archives now!!!! Great job.

By: fred

fred — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:59:32 +0000

Vucabel: That’s very true. Something I’ll be doing, though, is launching the new webreakstuff design that will take care of all of these outstanding issues with the current website. Hopefully you’ll see things by then.

There’s also a lot of work that I’m not able to put out there because of being under NDAs (mostly intranet work) which is unfortunate. But I will definitely have more information up. Keep an eye out.

And thanks a lot for your wonderful comments. I love constructive feedback.

By: vucabei

vucabei — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:56:17 +0000

Looks fantastic! (as does all of your work that I’ve seen) One thing that drives me nuts about your weblog and theirs are the tiny screenshot pictures in the posts. Every time I see one I want to click it to load the pic full screen.

Luckily, the techcrunch site with the new design is live, so I just went to it and got to see it.

Your portfolio page on this site is notorious for this. You have tiny screenshots of your work that don’t do anything when clicked, and worse yet, you don’t have links to most of the sites, yet the tiny pictures look so beautiful and interesting. Such a tease!