Is this part of Facebook's experiment to make us feel bad?

The type... (Especially the navigation)

Looks like it was designed by a print designer.

I wonder how Erik Spiekermann, one of their contributors, will feel about Archer everywhere.

I completely agree with all the above points. The thing I find most offensive though is the GIANT Mailchimp logo. I mean...I get it, that they sponsor them, but come on!

Um did anyone else get a dialog window saying "This website abuses rawgit.com. You should complain to its owner." ?

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032555/behind-the-scenes-of-the-design-observers-new-look

Article on the new design.

To be honest, it’s not surprising when you look at the contributors.

I went to TYPO Berlin this year. Pretty cool, right? One of the best design conferences on the planet. WRONG.

TYPO Berlin is the most pretentious, underwhelming conferences I’ve been to. I sat in the auditorium listening to people post-rationalise bad design—like the DO site—for hours on end. These people are jaded, out-of-touch, and the majority of them don’t understand digital.

They should stick to type design.

And they abuse gitraw.com?! https://www.dropbox.com/s/r0k6no84jvxokoe/Screenshot%202014-07-02%2010.46.21.png

I'm pretty insecure with my design skills, but I could do something better than this in 15 minutes.

Probably someone made a good site, and it got feedback and demands from too many people, and it ended up being like this

http://www.eyebleach.me/

It feels like a late 90s site viewed in the 2000s, complete with pixel fonts (on a laptop screen that nav is TINY) and scrolling text.

hard to read in general. why create a line that impedes the content, i felt i had to duck my head to read.

No retina support either.

Hover over the articles. Holy unanimated transitions, batman! Those intro sentences should smoothly slip in and out.

Woah, what are we, in 2003? This is just bad.

:(

Marquee aside. The best thing by far on the side is the hidden bar at the top. Which only contains Log in / Register. So worth hiding that behind a click! bravo.

slow clap

Set the time machine to 2006.

I thought my browser was zoomed out. Nope, that font is officially set to: mini.

Try clicking the 'login/register' arrow at the top. Could be ALOT smoother, and so easy to do, but I suppose that's the least of their worries!

That's one tall fixed header...

It looks like an old blogspot template? .... Is it?

I get the impression a print designer came up with this.

Whoa... hello Archer used for body copy. :S

Unfortunate. A missed opportunity.

I totally agree. I don't even see this as a new design. It almost seems as if they've just re-skinned the old website with some new colors and poor typography. Very unfortunate.