Comments on: New Adobe Site Design TERRIBLE

By: Business

Business — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:10:18 +0000

f you meet the Google Toolbar color is gray, which indicates that site have been clocked by Google.

By: flak

flak — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:09:15 +0000

does anyone know who did it.

By: Naim

Naim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:19:58 +0000

adobe website, specially videos are fucking slow.how can they pride themselves to be the high tech guys!?

By: N.M.

N.M. — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:42:35 +0000

AGREE!!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:04:58 +0000

I fear the worst has happened at Adobe. This new site design is just the tip of the iceberg. I am not the only user who has issues with the quality of CS3 (3 hour install time, registry hacks required, animation in the applications causing my system to run poorly, having to decifer microsoftesque little icons to find the collapsed panels I'm looking for, etc), so I am not surprised that the new website is horrible. Adobe has lost site of the most important part of design: function. Designing for the web is not the same as designing for the printed page. The web demands that layouts and content be visible even if the page isn't fully loaded. If you're going to forgo content for flashy animation, make sure the animation is worth seeing. The animation that ran yesterday must have been a megabyte without a preloader! Amateur hour. What happened to all of the standards loving Macromedia employees. Were they laid off?
Thanks for the forum to vent. I really wanted to see Adobe take on Microsoft after the merger, but instead, they just became Microsoft.

By: Dark Vyper

Dark Vyper — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:29:50 +0000

I agree with most of you here, while the site has useful and functional and good in those important areas, to look at it is definitely inferior to the previous design.

For a company which arduously focuses on giving us software to create beautiful designs, it's not done itself justice with it's new website at all.

By: Al Sparber

Al Sparber — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:38:10 +0000

Adobe has never had what one could call a beautiful web site design. The former Macromedia site was neat, clean, and slow – but really superior to anything Adobe had done in the past. That's not to say the site is not usable… it's just not pretty… or well laid out, or very symmetrical

Making decent graphical software has absolutely nothing to do with good design, in my opinion, so Adobe should not be held to such a high standard. If there was a relationship, you would also see it in the web page templates they ship. Again, it's just the way it is. If it affects sales or if they feel embarassed, I'm sure they'll hire a good desgin team to make things look better.

By: Shane E

Shane E — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:43:53 +0000

Use the "Feedback" crosshairs widget on their site, and tell them how badly it sucks. No need to provide your help for free, but if they receive enough negative feedback, maybe they'll fix it and you won't have to deal with the eyesore.

By: Steven Sacks

Steven Sacks — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:57:30 +0000

Statements like "the site is pretty great" and "is generally way better" contain the same amount of detail that "yuck, it stinks!" does, which you said is simplistic and not something you enjoy. I'm just sayin.

By: Susan G

Susan G — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:16:25 +0000

I think the site is pretty great, handles the massive amounts of data the site contains and is generally way better than the last version. Although I'd really enjoy hearing a detailed criticism rather than this simplistic "yuck, it stinks!" review.