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Paypal Redesigned

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What do you guys think about do their new design? I think it looks fantastic!

... and nothing has changed once you login. As a PayPal user I'd rather have my dashboard/account views redesigned rather than an overhaul of a landing page I will never look at for more than half a second...

But any time PayPal redesigns the internal pages, every single tutorial on how to actually accomplish something in PayPal becomes useless.

that shouldn't stop a company of that size to take their product to the next level.

While I'm in complete agreement; as a PayPal user, I'd rather have my dashboard/account views actually load in a reasonable amount of time... never mind a redesign. I've redesigned client workflows (from shipping through PayPal) and changed credit processors simply because looking up a transaction (or _anything_) is like pulling teeth in PayPal. Even when using their API.

Seriously, doing a transaction search results in a "please wait" message that reads: "This may take up to 30 seconds".

Wasn't this on here a few weeks ago?

Anyways, PayPal has been due for an update for a couple years now. As for why it doesn't change when you log in, the main reason PayPal's doing this is to compete with startupy new companies like Square and Stripe in terms of new customer acquisitions. Those new customers won't leave PayPal after tying in their bank accounts, etc., so PayPal isn't as worried about retaining them.

PayPal's _home page_ redesigned. The interior is still as outdated as ever.

I see an entirely different dashboard after login too. Maybe they are still testing their redesign. It looks very cool.

Saw this about a week ago on the homepage of HN. It's a substantial improvement and the reason the logged in view hasn't been redesigned is because Paypal is in the business of making money, if you change anything in the process that makes them money and you annoy or confuse 1% of your visitors when you're a site like Paypal that is a lot of lost cash.

Give it time, there will be a redesign of the logged in view eventually but as it stands I like the logged in view I know it well and it works.

Maybe it's just me, but everything is starting to look a "Twitter Bootstrappy" these days...

Could be you. Or it could be me.

Either way I associate Bootstrap with bold fonts, bold colours whereas this is muted. Reminds me of Kissmetrics actually.

I think it's a combination of:

* the dark top bar;

* the blue gradient buttons;

* it's primarily a 1-column layout with a 3-column segment ('buy into being safer' &c.)

None of those Bootstrap-specific, of course, but they are increasingly common as a result of it.

A more unified experience across the web is a good thing. It improves usability. Imagine if your Windows or Mac UI for applications were all designed differently. That's the web. So please, more people use Twitter Bootstrap.

And for several large programs they are. As media players have been discussed recently: iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp all use non-standard interfaces. Browsers have varying degrees of deviation from a "standard" program with Chrome being the worst. LibreOffice and OpenOffice before it both have some atypical components. I could go on.

Welcome to PayParallelogram? https://squareup.com/

A new homepage does not a redesign make.

Reminds me a lot of this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/

Nice! They did it just for me!

That "Take the Tour" button is the stupidest thing I've seen in years.

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