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12 Comments By Chris Tingom on August 16, 2007

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What’s going on at Bloomberg.com? They have a completely new design that breaks a few very long held design conventions. I like it.

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[...] I like the orange, except not for Bloomberg. What the hell? Halloween? It’s so off-beat from the normal course of news site design that it almost makes it cool. Not quite though. Chris likes it though (thanks for the link). [...]

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Comment posted by Aaron
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With so many financial news options available on the web, I can see the desire to want to differentiate from each other. I give management credit for doing something to break out the trend and I can see using color as a brand, but I think the orange on black is just too damned hard to read. I think if I were them I would have given users, who are likely more often than not repeat visitors, the option of a second color palette/skin to choose from.

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Comment posted by Jeff
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I agree with Aaron, too much visual tension for me to read financial data on a black background. Interesting they should do this in the wake of this article on their terminal redesign.
http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2007/07/09/Bloomberg-Terminals-Design

see the revamps here: (IDEO wins IMO)
http://www.portfolio.com/infographics/2007/06/terminals

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Comment posted by James
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I can honestly say, this is a visual mess. it does look like Halloween. Maybe they should consider selling pumpkins on it along with showing financial data.

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Comment posted by MarkeeO
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I must admit, a website with 187 validation errors really makes me proud to be web designer..

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Comment posted by Gordon Gecko
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It is refreshingly obvious how few of your readers are involved in finance. Anyone that has ever used a Bloomberg application will immediately recognize the light-font-on-black-screen theme from their ubiquitous terminal screens. Cute analysis though.