Quote from: louoates on August 08, 2010, 11:16

My first reaction to the new site was I thought I stumbled upon a funeral web site.
Deadly dull.

Yes it does! Maybe it's a tribute to our dead sales (which are probably about to nose-dive even further).

That's a nice coincidence isn't it. I hope their new "more buyer oriented" design will resolve all buyers issues with buying images. It look like they have a lot of difficulty lately...

i hate staring at the same number all day, every day.

Hope we have a good Monday.  Otherwise, it will be better to cover the number with a piece of adhesive tape.

It's Ok - i have no major problems with it - a lot of blank space but perhaps that is the trend - it will take some getting used to from a navigation point of view but we will all adjust I assume. I was hoping for something a little more unique from a design point of view to be honest - it looks like so many other sites out there - one big positive is it it seems like we will not have to sign in and out a hundred times a day for so-called security reasons ... I have been signed in for over 24 hours now - fingers crossed that sticks for a few days.

I just went to Thinkstock and it's essentially the same design ... so I guess this is a Getty brand look. That's a shame - I still wish IS would be more independent.

I just went to Thinkstock and it's essentially the same design ... so I guess this is a Getty brand look. That's a shame - I still wish IS would be more independent.

That's what I thought too. Not identical but the coloring and design elements are pretty similar.

Arhar!!  Dirkr!!  Thank you sooo much.  I didn't realise that.  Brilliant.  Have a heart  on me

The website is crap...none of the layouts load properly on the 4 different computers I've tried, and nothing looks good.  Its confusing and they spent a year+ just changing the colours of a site that worked well already.  Silly, just silly

Whole the time I was expecting total black background  under images,frankly I was disappointed a bit, when I saw new layout in that video.... ...

Hope we have a good Monday.  Otherwise, it will be better to cover the number with a piece of adhesive tape.

yeah, it's finally changed! i love mondays. the buyers always come back with a vengence.

but i'll keep a piece of tape for the weekends since the number isn't going anywhere on the screen.

I like the functionality of new site, its design and launch has happened fairly seamlessly, without any major, show-stopping bugs.

I hate the illustrations. they are ridiculous and out of place, and they take up valuable space. the site should be centered, not left-justified for the sake of those awful drawings. Sunday and Monday sales were normal, good even and my take on the best match mention is what Lisa said. I don't think they are referring to the algorithm. I haven't noticed any best match upheavals and I follow the placement of my files in best match pretty closely

This new layout is a bit easier to navigate than the last layout.  I hated the last layout cause it took too long to find information that wasn't visible on the first page!

Hopefully the buyer experience is much improved.

I tried to upload a vector illustration file using the new web site. 
I'm actually upset by all this.

I cannot believe that IStock took 1 year to build their new site from ground up and the upload page (notoriously buggy) has, as a result, gotten worse.

Upload page - vector file
I refuse to believe that any designer (let alone an IStock designer) has tested this thing for even a second.
Things are floating freely. Nothing is aligned anymore. Clickable buttons are nothing but colored rectangles scattered seemingly at random.
All the tedious preliminary steps are still there. No improvement. It's not faster, it's not easier, if anything, it's harder.
Your metadata is lost. Blank pages is all you get.
No titles, no description, no keywords. Blank.
The scrolling windows in categories (who designs scrolling windows anymore? crappy to begin with) are endless and the scrolling goes on and on and on.
Same for keywords.
Don't click the " + " and " - " signs (expand and collapse). Waste of time, they don't work.
Out of all the sites I submit to, IStock's upload process is the worse.
By a long mile.


But this release was all about the buyers. Let's see.
Change is good. IStock is sexier. A new website is here. Please take the tour and see for yourself!
Click on 'Take the Tour' and you land on a page about an IPhone application of some sorts.
This is one of the most prominent links on their home page. It stands out and it's broken.
For 4 days.
It only takes a minute to fix a link. For some reason they won't do it.
Why is the 'Free image of the week' smaller in size? It doesn't align on the page.
Why an IPhone add at the top of IStock's home page? After all, the new site doesn't even support IPhone. Why put it there?
Where is the Advanced Search? Why can't I access it without having to perform a normal search first?
Where are the Lboxes?
And the newest uploads?
Why move them?
It took one year to come to this.
I'll be waiting for Phase 2.

I really didn't think it took any longer to upload. Yeah, those extra keyword terms are annoying and not really necessary, but like most of the uploading process, I just turn my brain off and click on the buttons. Maybe, that is why they say uploading is a complicated process because you have to ignore all the extra garbage and just click the right buttons in a monotonous machine-like way.