Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  When Newer is Not Better (20 Aug 2004) Redesigning a site has traditionally been a fairly big event. Whether one likes a design or not, one tends to grow accustomed to the design. Any changes made stick out, especially an entire overhaul. When Honda redesigns a car engine, they don't just pray that it's a better engine than their last one. They test it; measuring its acceleration, top speed and dozens of other numbers I can't even begin to comprehend. Yet when sites are redesigned - often with new or different functionality - there seems to be an assumption that newer = better and change = good. Let's look at a recent example. Article URL: http://www.ok-cancel.com/comic/49.html Read 182 more articles from OK/Cancel sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: How to save your life     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy