How We Redesigned Our Website

Y Combinator · Beginner ·🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups ·1mo ago
In this special episode of Design Review, YC General Partner Aaron Epstein and YC Product Designer Eve Bouffard break down how they went about redesigning the YC homepage from the ground up. They’ll discuss the motivations for the redesign, the unconventional process they took and lessons for founders building their own sites. Chapters: 00:00 — Designing A New Website 01:00 — The Old Homepage 02:30 — Centering the Story on Founders 04:00 — The New Vision: Inspire, Don’t Sell 05:30 — Visualizing Founder Transformation 07:00 — Letting Founders Speak for Themselves 08:45 — Bringing YC’s Network…
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Chapters (9)

Designing A New Website
1:00 The Old Homepage
2:30 Centering the Story on Founders
4:00 The New Vision: Inspire, Don’t Sell
5:30 Visualizing Founder Transformation
7:00 Letting Founders Speak for Themselves
8:45 Bringing YC’s Network to Life
12:00 Minimal Design
17:00 The Future of Interactive Web Design

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 4 David Rusenko at Startup School 2012
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 6 Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012
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 8 Hiroshi Mikitani at Startup School 2012
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 9 Ron Conway at Startup School 2012
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 10 Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
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 11 Chris Dixon at Startup School 2013
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 12 Dan Siroker at Startup School 2013
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 13 Diane Greene at Startup School 2013
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 14 Jack Dorsey at Startup School 2013
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 15 Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2013
Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2013
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 16 Nate Blecharczyk at Startup School 2013
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 17 Phil Libin at Startup School 2013
Phil Libin at Startup School 2013
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 18 Ron Conway at Startup School 2013
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 19 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman
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 20 Chase Adam at Startup School 2013
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 21 Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014
Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014
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 22 Julia Hartz at Female Founders Conference 2014
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 29 David Lee at Startup School NY 2014
David Lee at Startup School NY 2014
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 30 Chase Adam at Startup School NY 2014
Chase Adam at Startup School NY 2014
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 31 Closing Remarks at Startup School NY 2014
Closing Remarks at Startup School NY 2014
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 32 Introduction at Startup School NY 2014
Introduction at Startup School NY 2014
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 33 Shana Fisher at Startup School NY 2014
Shana Fisher at Startup School NY 2014
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 34 Zach Sims at Startup School NY 2014
Zach Sims at Startup School NY 2014
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 35 Kathryn Minshew at Startup School NY 2014
Kathryn Minshew at Startup School NY 2014
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 36 Adora Cheung
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 37 Ian Hogarth
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 38 Hiroki Takeuchi
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 39 Alfred Lin with Justin Kan
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 40 Urska Srsen
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 41 Office Hours with Kevin & Qasar
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 42 Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit
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 43 Y Combinator Partners Q&A
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 44 Eric Migicovsky at Startup School SV 2014
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 45 Jim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014
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 46 Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince at Startup School SV 2014
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 47 Jessica Livingston Introduces Startup School SV 2014
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 48 Danae Ringelmann at Startup School SV 2014
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 49 Hosain Rahman at Startup School SV 2014
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 50 Kevin Systrom at Startup School SV 2014
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 51 Emmett Shear at Startup School SV 2014
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 52 Reid Hoffman at Startup School SV 2014
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 53 Ron Conway at Startup School SV 2014
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 54 Andrew Mason at Startup School SV 2014
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 55 Tracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
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 56 Ruchi Sanghvi Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
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 57 Kimberly Bryant Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
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 60 Adora Cheung Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
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