Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
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Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#2 Users want to see the people in the stories, not the people writing them.
I mean, in a story, sure, pictures can be great. But when deciding which story to read, e.g. when reading a list of headlines, I surely can't be the only one with a long enough attention span to actually read the headlines and decide based on what the story is, without needing a small picture to draw me in?
Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#3The site is down, any cached or working links?
Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#4The site is down, any cached or working links?
nope went down too quick. coral cache doesnt have it anyways.
Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#5Users want to see the people in the stories, not the people writing them. Truthfully I hope this is a case where media people aren't giving enough credit to their audience (as opposed to a case where I'm just a minority - though I suspect this is more the case). I mean, in a story, sure, pictures can be great. But when deciding which story to read, e.g. when reading a list of headlines, I surely can't be the only one…
I think you've misunderstood his point: he's saying that that the audience would rather see pictures of the story than a picture of the author.
In Andy's original article, his mockup featured photos of the authors next to some headlines. But of course, a photo of the story is far more useful than a photo of the correspondent.
Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#6"Unsolicited redesign" blog posts are just linkbait posts that ignore the most important part of redesigning a major website: user testing.
These unsolicited redesign posts just feed the author's ego and redesign a website with one user in mind: the author.
Re: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
#7"Unsolicited redesign" blog posts are just linkbait posts that ignore the most important part of redesigning a major website: user testing. These unsolicited redesign posts just feed the author's ego and redesign a website with one user in mind: the author.
This is exactly the point that Martin Belam makes:
So, if anyone wants to pick up the challenge and build a
prototype of Andy’s redux from our content, I’d love to
see it...and test it with users.