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I have not been writing very much lately because I’ve been doing a lot of building. This is a screenshot of one of the things I’ve been spending a lot of my time on. Our team has been focused on improving the user experience of our editorial content at Caring.com. If you are interested in seeing what the old version of this page looked like, I saved a screenshot of it here.
We’ve spent a lot of time on…
- typography, we moved to Helvetica for all content bodys (from Trebuchet, yuck)
- we moved away from 3 column content, to 2 column content
- reducing unnecessary noise on all templates
- simplified our on page/contextual navigation
- improved the usability of our pagination system
- simplified our sharing tools to only the ones users actually use (iteration!)
- completely redesigned the look and feel of our content toolbars, site-wide
- redesigned our question and answer experience
- redesigned our blog experience
The site has such a calm feeling now, its easier to read and consume our content now than ever before. I am really excited to see how these changes impact the usage of our site. My hope is that we see a bump in pageviews, at a minimum.
We have a few more launches coming this week at Caring.com, I’ll be posting about those as they happen. So glad to finally have some of this work out in the public. There are some interesting architectural changes that we’ve also been working away at, and its spawned an open source project for Rails that I will write about in the coming weeks.
