Engadget redesign: it’s done! And just getting started…
On June 8th I was looking at Engadget for the eight hundred thousandth time and decided we had to a change. We all know great content is what it is, but there were just so many things about Engadget that wasn’t working. Comments were unwieldy and user un-friendly, the pictures were just too tiny, and the whole thing felt like 2003/2004. It was a great site in need of some real love, and I’ve got a lot of love to give. Not that it’s any surprise, but we realized all this a long time ago; Engadget was actually redesigned Engadget back in late 2004 by its original designer, Jill Fehrenbacher, but because of some platform changes and an acquisition, the new Engadget never actually saw the light of day.
So on June 8th I sent an email rallying our tech team and the execs (if you really want to call them that); a call to arms to reinvigorate Engadget. Three months and eleven days later, I’m proud as a gadget blogger can be to present Engadget 2. I’ll save the bitching about how much work went into this thing — namely because it’s not done yet, not by a long shot — but we have tons more new features to add (my list is dozens long), and loads more improvements we’re rolling out in the coming months. Hope you guys like what we’ve come up with!
And, as always, much love for our tech team: Brian Alvey, Mike Propst, Gavin Hall, Alex Rudloff, and Celly!
great job to the whole team!! maybe now you can sleep again, hmm?
Comment by Veronica — Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 12:08 pm
Sweet! May be just enough of a reason for me to ditch the RSS feed and go back to the site itself. Congrats!
Comment by Marc — Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 7:23 pm
Comments have been off the hook today — I think people are really digging what we’ve got going on! Yesss.
Comment by Ryan Block — Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 7:38 pm