Phine Solutions web work notes

So the new Yahoo home page has been rolled out for a few weeks. For the most part, I like the new home page. It provides more information with some seemingly moderate changes. However, there are a couple of design points that I think can be made better.

The first is the big flyout from the “MY FAVORITES” menu. Basically when you move your mouse over an item, a flyout will pop out. I know it has its own merit, and the feature gives visitors shortcuts under the main category. But a big flyout box that fills out most part of the web page can be quite annoying, especially sometimes it was triggered by an accidental hover over the links. Any most of time I just want to click on the menu and go to my favorite subject – with this flyout action, I have to deal with some “delay” before getting where I want to go.

My suggestion: make the flyout smaller, simpler and more importantly, to load quicker.

Same place, “MY FAVORITES” list can get longer and there is not enough slots to display all of them,  to find the rest of the favorites, I have to click on a little “>” button to sort of go to the second page of the favorites.

Why not make this one a flyout then? Definitely the right feature for the right place.

Update:

Looks like Yahoo just updated their page design. Now when you hover over the left menu, a much smaller flyout will show, which you can click on to open the quick view. Much better design than kicking open the annoying page view blocker directly.