Quiet day, settled in for the evening, and then… up pops a new Delicious.
It shouldn’t be a big deal (the Delicious refresh has been circling over the runways for what seems like years now), and in some ways isn’t. There no wild and wacky shift in functionality; you save your bookmarks to the site, and see what other people are bookmarking. Simple recipe, but none the worse for it.
But in an understated way, it is a big deal – largely thanks for the design team at Yahoo. There are 101 beautiful little touches throughout the refresh, tiny tools that are wonderfully self-evident, and delightful to operate. The graphic design is good, but the subtle design of the system is excellent.
Try the three-step adjuster for the length of bookmark entries; you’ll find it top left. Nothing flash-bang, but precisely the right size and finger-clicking good to use. All good stuff – just a shame that with Firefox 3 now proving so useful as a place to chuck and reteive my bookmarks, I’m not sure I need an online service any more. For a video of the redesign’s highlights, head here.
