A type-centric redesign of Twitter.com

The screenshot looked really good. Running live, it's <i>way</i> too cluttered and there's not enough of a relation between relevant pieces of information. I strongly dislike the lefthand column, and the lack of contract with the righthand one. Finally, the "What are you doing?" box doesn't have nearly enough prominence.<p>Type-centric means using size to emphasize relevance. When everything's the exact same size your design is flawed.

This type-centric redesign fails to account for information architecture. What's the most important thing on the page? Probably the tweet and the picture.<p>The left column with ragged right justified time and twitter client stamp draws far too much attention and is not important enough to warrant so much emphasis.<p>The tweet itself seems almost accidental -- the main focus is on the photo itself.<p>Also, remove the twitter logo because it's not needed? Really? <i>wince</i>

I like the look, but at the same time it feels a little awkward. I don't like the grey lines everywhere, and the top of the page looks, well, awful.<p>On the upside, I like the look of the leftmost column a lot, and the three column layout works well. I like how the vertical space is highly emphasized.<p>Also, I never realized how awesome italicized Georgia font looks.<p>EDIT: Also, I think that a better color-palette would help.

I display the twitter timeline in my IRC client. In an 80x25 xterm, I can see about 15 tweets. Do you really need a picture of your friend every time he or she talks?

I had a very similar reaction to the most recent facebook re-design - I felt that bottom line, I was able to view much less content/information at a given time. I never understood why facebook would want to do such a thing - to increase clicks, perhaps.<p>(Note, I only skimmed the article)