Looks like the redesign is going over really well. Chris Sacca’s critique is priceless:
@alexia Well, to be clearer, @techcrunch looks like it was pimp-slapped by Interstate Bold and pearl necklaced by Caps Lock.
Darby Lines:
I don’t get all the hate for the TechCrunch re-design. A shitty site should have a shitty design. Sort of an early warning system.
Sebastiaan de With:
The new techcrunch.com’s extremely large, sharp headlines hurt your eyes, because you needed another excuse to not read their garbage.
A satirical (I hope) post from an unnamed individual at TechCrunch, as published in the Washington Post:
And so it was with some trepidation that I visited TechCrunch a few minutes ago and found that our much-vaunted redesign had “gone live”, complete with gigantic headline fonts, weird underlapping images and — oh God — a new logo. A new logo that, to my artistically untrained eye, looks like it was drawn with the sharpened tip of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
In response, TechCrunch attempts to defend itself:
TechCrunch is bold. It’s raw. It’s fast-paced. […] The overall look & feel reflects the bold, sometimes irreverent nature of TechCrunch. It doesn’t hold tea parties in the backyard or hang out with the black turtleneck crowd at the hippest art galleries. It’s a design that breaks more news than its competitors, that loves the code junkies working 22-hour days to build world-changing products. It’s the first and only design Heather, Mike and I looked at and said yeah, that’s it. It screams TechCrunch.
Translation: “Wasn’t GeoCities cool?”