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Apple Launches Redesign of the App Store [SCREENSHOTS]

Mashable  Dec 11 09

A few minutes ago, we got tipped off that Apple has begun a rollout of a redesign of the iPhone App Store within iTunes. It only took a quick check of Twitter and the iTunes store to confirm that, indeed, the application description pages of the iTunes store have changed.

The new-look app store is cleaner, whiter, and brings the most important information closer to the top. The new screenshots section of the app store is immediately apparent (and welcomed). It’s not live for every app page, but it is working for most of them.

Want to compare the differences? Here’s a screenshot of the old design:

Notice the blue-gray background, the location of important description information on the right-hand side of the page (farther away from the where the eye usually focuses first), and how only one screenshot appears on the page. Full story...

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