Well, as Squidoo HQ has mentioned several times, they continue to adjust and update their templates for lenses and how users interact with them.

If you haven’t had a chance to go look at a lens in the last few days, go take a peek. It’ okay… I’ll wait.

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Okay, so it looks a little bit different. And Squid U certainly noticed. I left my two cents on the update, but I’ll re-cap here.

Personally, I think they are pretty good.

1) I don’t like the ‘Loyalis Recommends’ in my sidebar. If you are going to have a lensroll function, I would prefer that it didn’t look like I was explicitly endorsing lenses that I’ve never seen before. Also, when you use Primary Tag Domination, it results in having your sidebar lensroll and the orange explore box with the exact same links… that’s kinda boring IMHO.

2) umm…. I see the sidebar image issues were fixed in my sleep! Nice work.

As HQ is progressing and working on their layouts and designs, I have been impressed with the way they have handled the criticism, etc. They have been exceptionally patient in explaining their motivations for changes and improvements to Squidoo and this patience is often overlooked.

I think there may be some argument to directing some of the redesign efforts to improved things like tag pages, the workshop (which is becoming a little divorced from the reality of what’s presented), as well as some re-designed ‘central navigation’ areas that make it easy to find some super cool lenses…oh and a pony for Gil..

Great work Guys, keep it up.

Thoughts or comments?