There's almost no emphasis on the navigation and for a site with so many parts this is a negative.<p>On the whole I like the move to the cleaner and simpler layout but it still puzzles me that they almost completely neglect categories or tags.
I think the redesign is absolutely terrible, and I'm not talking about visuals. The emphasis of the UI is on advertising / sponsorships, and not on content; for a content-focused company, this doesn't work. I can't help but think of a tirade that David Cross goes on about Arrested Development where he basically ridicules the network for shortening the length of the show, minutes at a time, in order to increase ad revenue at the expense of the show and its viewers. Techcrunch appears to be doing the same thing, albeit in a different medium.
Not nearly as big of a change as the last redesign.<p>The original TC design: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060101080638/http://techcrunch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20060101080638/http://techcrunch....</a>