There's almost no emphasis on the navigation and for a site with so many parts this is a negative.

On the whole I like the move to the cleaner and simpler layout but it still puzzles me that they almost completely neglect categories or tags.

I think the redesign is absolutely terrible, and I'm not talking about visuals. The emphasis of the UI is on advertising / sponsorships, and not on content; for a content-focused company, this doesn't work. I can't help but think of a tirade that David Cross goes on about Arrested Development where he basically ridicules the network for shortening the length of the show, minutes at a time, in order to increase ad revenue at the expense of the show and its viewers. Techcrunch appears to be doing the same thing, albeit in a different medium.

Not nearly as big of a change as the last redesign.

The original TC design: http://web.archive.org/web/20060101080638/http://techcrunch....

Liked the old UI better :(

Why are more and more sites getting facelifts that completely ruin user experience? What ever happened to good old fashioned design elements like contrast, spacial awareness, things like this?

The page looks like a Word Document now.

Okay, the redesign is much more sensible than the old. It's cleaner, clearer, and IMO much better.

Contrast?! The new design plays much better to contrast. They took out unnecessary visual debris (well, besides the ads, of course).

This is at least one thing TC is has done right recently.

GigaCrunch?

That was my first thought too -- it has a very GigaOm-ish feel.

Most interesting change to me is that they moved the RSS link/Feedburner button to the footer.

That logo feels so foreign.