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Have your read the book?
No, I'm waiting for the movie to come out. :) sorry couldn't resist. No. I have not read the book. I feel the point I am making is valid without having read it. The fact is clear that this person is a design profesional even without the book.
"I’m purposefully not identifying this person or the project or providing a link back to the redesign itself, mostly because I think it’s counter-productive to continue to reward this effort with more unwarranted attention. To me, it felt less like constructive criticism than link-baiting, and so I have tried to avoid making any public comment."
Obviously he's not a NYT reader. I love the times. It's not broken. Their website is fantastic in every way. You can spend hours upon hours on it and digest more content, in whatever style you wish to navigate. It has a certain unity within the chaos. But it's not really chaos. The content is the layout. You won't find any other News organization who understands design more than NYT. They let the content design the l…
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Does he? To be fair, I would not have gathered that from his post. I think he kept that much separate.
In this post, yes (though he does insinuate that the NY Times has too strong of an editorial bias). In others, no: https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/95664717669994496 https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/94536441488621569 http://www.andyrutledge.com/how-to-join-aiga.php Again, if it works for him, great. It just makes it harder for me personally to be objective about him and his work.
Dear god, where to start. I worked on the Times web site for 7 years (dev, not design). Before I even saw his "redesign" I read his preamble. First, lets be clear, he is working from the wrong assumptions. He demonstrates clearly what is wrong with many news outlets but then he lumps the Times in with them too. Since his piece is about the Times I have to feel all assertions he makes are about that too, and not just…
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I know it's easier to throw the same page no matter what screen size it is.
First you say that there is no single solution:
"You can not have one magic solution for all."
and then:
"Well, very simple. The iPhone is capable of rendering and interacting with the full page. It was the first browser to do so - it don't require a lite version. You could tap, zoom, pinch, drag and get the full depth of the page."
You just defend your ugly design by "it's not doable" and by "we know better"