WinCustomize: Before and After

Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize 2011 Feedback

WinCustomize 2K5 home page:

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  • Displays top 3 most popular
  • Displays 3 top most popular master skins
  • Displays  featured skin
  • Displays poll no one uses
  • 1 Promotional item
  • Right side has command bar and ad.
  • Lots of icons that mean nothing to most users.

…Compared to…

WinCustomize 2K10 home page:

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  • Top 5 newest skin thumbnails
  • Top 5 most popular skin thumbnails 1 click away (no page refresh)
  • Featured skin
  • Top skins and skinners available.
  • 3 Promotional items available
  • Mouse-over access to galleries, articles, news, and much more.

 

WinCustomize 2K5 Skin view:

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  • Top half of screen used to describe what WindowBlinds is in a wall of text.
  • Right side has little that’s useful to readers and just adds confusion when someone is trying to link to a skin.
  • Lots of text, little information.
  • If you want to browse other skins, you have to hit the back button.

…Compared to…

WinCustomize 2K10 Skin view:

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  • Lot less wordy (though URls need to be fixed in comments)
  • Can go to next skin easily
  • Other skins by author displayed
  • Featured skins for category displayed
  • Further down displays top skins and top authors for that category.