I popped over to CNN.com tonight to catch up on the news a bit, and was refreshingly surprised to see that they’d launched the beta version they’ve been working on. It’s more than just paint on the old bones—they’ve done a major amount of work in rethinking how they present stories and allow the user to move through the large amounts of content they publish.

Visually, the simplified color scheme and reduced amount of ornamentation is appreciated; likely by advertisers more than anyone. Now they have the only thing in the streamlined page layouts that stick out like a sore thumb!

On the user experience end of the equation there’s too much to mention. Thankfully, CNN sums up the new features well; check out the tour of the relaunched site’s new features to get a quick overview of what’s new.

Already forgot what CNN used to look like? Here’s Gigablast’s cached version of the CNN.com dated June 8th.

Tags: CNN.com, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Interface, Visual Design

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