Posted by ozomatli on 10/15/2015 12:36:00 PM (view original):

Posted by crazystengel on 10/15/2015 12:32:00 PM (view original):
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the My Locker page.  Why would they mess with it?  

It looks as though it's intended to be better for a mobile / tablet experience now. We recently did a redesign at my job for that reason. Bigger fonts, more spread out inputs, softer colors, smoother edges. From a design perspective, it's more modern. The problem is that WIS isn't really bringing in enough new users to make it worthwhile. In order to get to a point where a redesign like this would make sense, they should make game updates first. Alas, backwards thinking is all too common and the allure of a flashy design is strong among the misguided project managers of the world.

Commendable insight. OTOH, this mobile dumb-down phase should serve to cleanse Web sites of some haphazard architecture and presentation.

Presumably most of us "will get used to it". However it was a shock to the system, and worse... there doesn't appear to have been any heads up to us common users to let us know this was happening (i.e., no pre-launch communication strategy?)

Posted by ArlenWilliam on 10/15/2015 4:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by crazystengel on 10/15/2015 12:56:00 PM (view original):
I'm not a computer guy, but if tiny screen users are the reason for this change, how about giving medium and big screen users (which I'd guess is still the majority of us) the option of keeping the old look?  

That's the way it began, when it came to adding tiny smart phone screens to the mix. Just give them their own version of the WWW. IMHO, that's the way it should have stayed. We all want bigger and more pixels, not less. Most of us want to have big screens with multiple windows on them, truly like a desktop messy enough to get good work done.

I think in the future (must be said like Dr. Emmett Brown and may the Cubs win the World Series) such division of presentations between hand-held and desktop (and wall hung and floor-standing and ceiling hanging) will once again occur. This period will be seen a hiccup, one of those that causes pain in the trachea.

great post Arlen!

Can't lie, it looks pretty good on my phone.   Weird on the laptop, but it may be the "newness"

Posted by dahsdebater on 10/15/2015 12:27:00 PM (view original):
I feel like it's actually less convenient to get to things, now...

Me too, and visually hard on the eyes as well.

It sucks, I might quit? OK, just kidding.

maybe give an option if we want to use the old style or the new style. I know some other sites have a full version or phone version and you can pick which one you prefer.

just an idea to keep everyone happy.

Did they not announce the beta testing of the graphics? Wow, and I was wanting to take the survey...

The redesign is good, if you're on a laptop or tablet. On a smartphone, the presentation is too big; fonts too big; and you cannot resize the page. The old version was much more adaptable; I could size up sections, like in the box score, for instance. I do a lot of my monitoring of my teams while I am on the road, and it is important to be able to do everything easily on he smartphone.

Posted by tragedy on 10/16/2015 7:33:00 AM (view original):
The redesign is good, if you're on a laptop or tablet. On a smartphone, the presentation is too big; fonts too big; and you cannot resize the page. The old version was much more adaptable; I could size up sections, like in the box score, for instance. I do a lot of my monitoring of my teams while I am on the road, and it is important to be able to do everything easily on he smartphone.

i have to disagree.

It is not important to do everything easily on a smartphone. Trying to make too much too easy on a smartphone is exactly what's wrong with current Web design.

Just think of the very, very important tables in SLB... the player search/draft, the long lists of player and team stats.... those will never, ever be easy to work with on a tiny screen. Attempts to make these many-factored sims functional on a smartphone by showing less data in a window would make the entire system less functional.

Think of the classic battle maps used in war rooms, seen in movies. Think of generals being told they have to give them up and refer to such maps only on smartphones now.

Or think of day traders trying to use only smartphones.

Posted by italyprof on 10/15/2015 6:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dahsdebater on 10/15/2015 12:27:00 PM (view original):
I feel like it's actually less convenient to get to things, now...

Me too, and visually hard on the eyes as well.

https://www.whatifsports.com/mlb-l/mygames.asp  -- how do we even get to it anymore?

Posted by ArlenWilliam on 10/17/2015 9:47:00 AM (view original):

Posted by italyprof on 10/15/2015 6:14:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dahsdebater on 10/15/2015 12:27:00 PM (view original):
I feel like it's actually less convenient to get to things, now...

Me too, and visually hard on the eyes as well.

https://www.whatifsports.com/mlb-l/mygames.asp  -- how do we even get to it anymore?

Hit any of the "Results" links on My Locker

Got it Ozo, thanks. Reading play by play is one thing that's done well on smartphones. On a pc, I have to shrink the screen down before seeing the game, so I don't get tipped off (vertically, as to what happens later in the game before reading it in order) -- (horizontally, as to whether the game went extra innings).