Saturday, May 4th 2013
Presenting the All New TechPowerUp
Welcome to the all new TechPowerUp, a refreshing redesign of your favorite place on the web for PC hardware and technology.
Our brand new site design modernizes the site, makes it more usable, while not deviating from our focus on simplicity, without confusing it with minimalism. The site features clean and bright elements that are ready for ultra high-definition displays, and devices with high-density screens, such as iPad with Retina display, and the new breed of smartphones with 1080p displays. Our site not only scales up with some of these devices, but also its elements keep up with high-density displays.
Our new site design introduces a suite of new features to our main sections, including Reviews, Downloads, Case-mod Gallery, and our four databases. The Reviews section gets more usable summary lists, the Downloads section makes it easier to find what you're looking for. The Case-mod gallery is optimized for high-resolution images, and features an improved gallery view. We've always considered our four databases - Reviews, VGA BIOS, GPU, and CPU, our strengths, and optimized each with unique sets of new features that greatly improve usability. All the content is timed to the users' local time.
Work on the all new TechPowerUp began in early-2013, and was designed by taking inputs and feedback from all of our departments. In April, we opened the new design up for testing by the TechPowerUp Forums community, and took a great deal of feedback from it.
We're extremely happy to launch our new interface to the web, designed by everyone who holds the site dear.
Our brand new site design modernizes the site, makes it more usable, while not deviating from our focus on simplicity, without confusing it with minimalism. The site features clean and bright elements that are ready for ultra high-definition displays, and devices with high-density screens, such as iPad with Retina display, and the new breed of smartphones with 1080p displays. Our site not only scales up with some of these devices, but also its elements keep up with high-density displays.
Work on the all new TechPowerUp began in early-2013, and was designed by taking inputs and feedback from all of our departments. In April, we opened the new design up for testing by the TechPowerUp Forums community, and took a great deal of feedback from it.
We're extremely happy to launch our new interface to the web, designed by everyone who holds the site dear.
136 Comments on Presenting the All New TechPowerUp
1./ Main noticeable change is the narrow font... but not a good one. There are better. (Or it just doesnt render well at the chosen font size)
2./ It lets you put "more" on the line... but doesnt change the quality of what is written. The reverse in fact. It allows lazy verbose journalism.
3./ Keep the other changes by all means, but fix the fonts. In its current state, the net net is negative.
I love the spell check feature!!! New look is good, but kinda soft and fluffy like a pokemon.
Great job on the update btw.. 07Bit on the overly critical side, in a rude way there..
How about you make a whole new format for the forums and make it less stupid?
Then we can see how great people think your design is..
"Constructive" criticism is nice..
I'm sure I'd leave a lot of comments if it did, seeing as how alluring it is to click something that is 50+ times the size of my mouse cursor.
Only thing I would suggest, put the pictures next to the story(left or right) instead of underneath. It looks more tidy on the side, like how they do it on the anandtech site.
And maybe move the "Todays Reviews" into a feed on the side, in place of the forum posts, move the forum posts down. Same with the nextpowerup section, move it to a feed on the side.
When you click the home page, you need to scroll down to see news. It would be better to see the best /latest story of the day on the home page without scrolling.
Also, the web page should be able to be stretched across the whole width of a 1920 pixel wide monitor if the user wants it.
What's the logic in restricting this?