1. She finally got a redesign to go
through.
As we've reported on before, Yahoo leaders have
wanted a redesign since 2009. But it never got
done, even as CEOs came and went. Why the
holdup? "It tested poorly" in 2009, one source told
us.
But Mayer didn't wait any longer. She launched a redesign of Yahoo's homepage, logo, and features like Yahoo
mail and Flickr.
The homepage redesign "presents what Yahoo sees as the ‘latest’ internet," wrote one web design critic. "And this
part of the site feels like a success. It captures the feeling of a Twitterlike
stream of information whilst staying
true to the idea of a portal.