New Lenovo web site: worst site I've ever seen

well i guess Dell is still ran by Mr Dell... in terms of website design, i prefer that of the Apple... it has the right amount of information and navigation through the website is a breeze (you can pretty much always find what you are looking for).

 

As a Web designer, the thing I hate the most about the new Lenovo site is the expanding onload jQuery function at the top of the page. When one of the Products landing pages first load, you think you're going to be able to see everything above the fold, but then a huge splash banner with no meaningful copy appears out of nowhere and pushes the content below the fold, forcing you to scroll past a large splash banner where there once briefly was none. I imagine that most end-users and consumers hate onload effects because automatically manipulating the position of content breaks usability and accessibility guidelines. I would refuse to do that for a client.

I can understand large banners on home pages. I don't think the new Lenovo home page is that bad. That said, the Flash preloader disguised as a giant Lenovo logo with sound is very annoying and the use of Flash is completely unnecessary when a jQuery slideshow would have been perfect. They managed to abuse jQuery on an interior page rather than rightfully using it on the home page. Idiots.

 

What I dislike the most is how you have to hunt links that are moving downwards. Say I want to see the pricing on X20x tablet series laptops.

First I have to click on Thinkpad category. Even with the performance mice such as Razer Mamba and Logitech G7 I am using, it's still really annoying to have you click on the moving links (or waiting each time for them to fall down...). Is this a serious company website or some stupid flash game?! Not only nothing happens when I click on the Thinkpads, now I have to click 1 more time on a popup bubble that says "View series". Having passed that challenge I am in for another hunting game. Again I fail on clicking, so I have to wait for the animation end, yet to find out another "View X Series" link. Finally X series laptop page opens. BUt Oh wait.... it shows only x100 and x201. I wanted to see X201tablet (my mistake, but it happens... so I have to go 1 page back... only to be presented with more of that falling animations. Finally I find the tablet. As I try my best to see the price as it is (again) falling down, I need ANOTHER click on "View models" to actually get to the damn page with models. At least at this point, things have finally stopped falling down so I get to the page I wanted.

I agree, Apple web is pretty neat.

 

The funny thing is, these annoying things aren't on the Lenovo SPP site. Obviously they know they don't want to annoy their shareholders, but they can annoy their regular consumers. :laugh:

 

normal shareholders are probably regular customers and they don't really need the bling or vampire-ish website design to attract them to Lenovo products.

I think visiting the Lenovo main website makes for a good Halloween exercise.

 

Vampire-ish? lol. Well I'm a shareholder (a whole 3 shares of IBM now ), and I'm glad that it doesn't have that there.

 

well the Lenovo whisper and that black webpage colour does conjure up images of Stephen King movies.

 

For all those complaining about how the current configuration screens are worse than the old list... you know you can switch to the old "see all" list view by clicking on the link at the top of the customization screen, right (see below)?

That gets you to a screen just like the old configuration menu. Personally, I don't see how this new website is so bad - it's a lot less buggy than the old one, from my experiences. I'd rather they remove the "Lenovo" voice though...

Spoiler

 

If you notice, now the "lenovo whisper' voice have gone from US website... at Indonesian site still remain though...

 

Ahh, they must be reading this thread !! lol

Well, at least the whisper being gone is one step

 

I think they do read the NBR forums.

 

i guess the voice of the discontent works its magic with big corporation... now i feel more satified with Lenovo as a Company then ever before.

 

yeah... it's almost like they have spies.

 

No, really? Wonder who that could be??

 

Report from Canada: the devilish whisper has been exorcised. Now we Canadians can safely browse Lenovo website in the dark.