I remember back from the old days when you whispered Yahoo to a designer, you might hear a small but clearly perceptible gag.

Yahoo has taken a clear turn in the last couple years and introduced clean (yet still minimal) design across many of their properties. The other day I stumbled upon Yahoo Health and was quite impressed to see them take it even further.

Color me pink

One of the first things that struck me was the color. Ok more to the point that they actually used it, and in abundance. Most of all the Yahoo properties use a primarily white background with sparse splashes of CSS coloring, and it’s most often blue. Yahoo Health uses a gray background, and the homepage is primarily shades of light tan and a soft pale turquoise-blue. Overall it’s a very calming, personal, and inviting pallet. It almost looks like was designed.

Javascript is for tough guys

In addition they also utilized some tastefully done Javascript effects. The main content area is broken into a few hide and show tabs, butsurprisingly the tabs have a fade effect when the content changes. It also rotates between the tabs after a certain interval to expose more content. Certainly not the candy I would expect from Yahoo. They also tried an interesting side scroll area, complete with branded scroll handle. This was a little odd and was clunky in operation, but I certainly give them hats off for trying.

All in all I would say it’s a fairly well designed portal site. Especially from one of the big boys. Now if we could only get the rest to follow suit…

Published on April 11, 2006
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9 Responses to “Yahoo Health: In Good Shape”

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   Matthew Anderson on April 12th, 2006

   I’ve also been impressed with Yahoo! lately, but hadn’t stumbled across this site yet. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Ryan.

   I think they did a really nice job on the color pallete. In fact, almost looks like something that Apples To Oranges would use (i.e. ACS).

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   owen on April 18th, 2006

   I don’t know, I guess the big heads up at the Y like the blue. I tried changing my mail box color the other day and it just look weird in any other color.

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   Bhaal on April 20th, 2006

   Gotta admit: the design does not ‘get in the way’ of the content.

   My favorite is Apple’s site (even though I’m a Windows guy): even though there are something like 28 links on their home page, they have a big fat banana to lead the masses - you know exactly where they want you click.

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   cornelius abrahams on October 29th, 2006

   she is a kind of girl to be trusted byanyone cus she luuvs everyone likee her mother and father most of all she luvs me first than gideon in heer class and tthe other boys tthat she knows

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   le hien on November 20th, 2006

   HI,

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   le hien on November 20th, 2006

   HI,

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   Medvedik on March 29th, 2007

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