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title: WordPress.com Redesign
date: 2009-08-12T16:55:44+00:00
modified: 2009-08-12T16:55:44+00:00
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  - User Experience
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# WordPress.com Redesign

[Jeff has brought](http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-com-testing-a-new-look) to my attention that folks at Automattic [are testing](http://twitter.com/iammattthomas/status/3252735986) a redesign of the [WordPress.com](http://wordpress.com/) front page.

Those arriving at WordPress.com front page are either from other blogs hosted on WordPress.com or search engines, and **most of them are interested in creating a blog for themselves**. Those who want to explore featured posts are mostly the existing users. Therefore, I suggest to:

1. make the sign-up area more prominent, and
2. featured posts more easy to scan.

Here is a greyscale mock-up of what I mean with the first suggestion:

[![Suggestions for improving WordPress.com redesign](/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wordpress-com-redesign-480x470.png "WordPress.com redesign")](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wordpress-com-redesign.png)Suggestions for improving WordPress.com redesign



What do you think?