Live.com: Where Is Alignment?

Published: 6/29/2008 | Updated: 6/29/2008 | Discuss

Since the last redesign of Live.com, I kept waiting for them to do something about the apparent lack of alignment. Alignment is one of the very basic principles of UI design. I discussed it back when I had fun with the latest rendering of Microsoft.com.

Live.com home page: broken alignment

The search box, with all its accompanying adornment, is just hanging nowhere, without visual connection to anything. As much as I appreciate good examples of proverbial “out of the box thinking,” this isn’t it. This is sloppiness.

I would be remiss to not make an obvious comparison with Google.com:

Google home page: proper alignment

Comments

1 Chris | Monday, June 30, 2008 at 12:53 AM

Also huge alignment differences between ie7 & ff3. Try personalizing your my.live.com; and I quote; "this may take a few minutes" (it actually does take a few _minutes_!!!

2 Michael | Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 1:06 AM

And the best is if you look at the site with Opera. Then the two vertical lines next to the word "Web" above the search field, are totally misaligned.

3 website designer india | Monday, August 04, 2008 at 5:57 AM

Ooooops so it's miss by microsoft. There are many problems in alignments and CSS. It's being displayed differently in mostly all browers and resolutions

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