Welcome to the new eBay

Re:Welcome to the new eBay by chubot on Thursday October 11, 2012 @02:56AM (#4639794)

Is it just me, or are the recent visual overhauls of EBay, Microsoft, and Google remarkably similar?

  - The logos all have red, blue, yellow, green (that was
    true before, but the shades they use seem more
    similar now)
  - flat styling with minimal drop shadows
  - using lots of white background and light grey lines/panels
  - more hard square corners than rounded
  - san serif fonts (very similar if not identical)
  - hovering over links underlines
  - full width backgrounds

I'm not a designer, but it just seems like a very common visual vocabulary. I wonder why the brands wouldn't try to differentiate themselves more? It has some similarities to Apple's aesthetic but less "sleek" with the multi-colors.

They're going for "clean" but to me it's starting to look a little bland.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by nsns on Thursday October 11, 2012 @02:58AM (#4639801)

It's called fashion. You know, what everyone does to differentiate themselves from the herd.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by hm8 on Thursday October 11, 2012 @04:12AM (#4639964)

This were precisely my first thoughts about the overhaul. But you'd have to agree that the newer layout definitely looks refreshing on all platforms except at Google where people took some time to come to terms with the changes.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by cheneytsai on Thursday October 11, 2012 @05:21AM (#4640104)

I believe Ebay and Microsoft actually hired the same agency to do their redesign.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by wallawe on Thursday October 11, 2012 @10:01AM (#4640779)

And their homepage is shockingly similar to Amazon's: http://cl.ly/image/2Z0w3q0G1g0y

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by reitoei on Thursday October 11, 2012 @10:42AM (#4640964)

> I'm not a designer

Yet you attempt to critique using phrases like "sleek" and "clean".

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by lowboy on Thursday October 11, 2012 @02:24PM (#4642029)

Why is that problem? Just because someone wouldn't define their job or profession as designer doesn't mean they can't have opinions.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by schoash on Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:28AM (#4639864)

This logo looks like a first iteration in their redesigning process.

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Re:Welcome to the new eBay by thejosh on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:50AM (#4640388)

web 3.0 is here.

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