Experimental New York Times Interface

A bit too much information in one page... Too many columns, but that's just a personal opinion.

This s a really nice interface. That said, doesn't matter if they have best interface in the world, readers are going to be really annoyed if they keep asking people to log into read articles. That and their paper edition.

So how are the articles ordered? Does this order change over the course of the day? Sure it's a great way to expose me to tons of info with very easy eye movement, but it's also tons of real estate. How do I re-find an article or is that not really a problem? If they're not going to foster user added content, then no; if they are, then it's a big problem. I sure hope they also have a sortable list view (by post, by title, by author, by location, by popularity over a time period). They have a big challenge and I agree than the present form could be improved, I'm just not sure this is the only best way to go. Nice to see them pushing the envelope a bit though as it shows the get it and want to improve- two plusses in my book.

Good step forwards towards interaction. Some more things that could make it a killer:

  * Graceful degradation for noscript; maybe do a simple CSS fallback option.
  * The page-slide animation is eye-candy but IMHO with time it might get annoying, make it optional.
  * It shouldn't be hard to add an X on top-right corner of boxes to remove or shade things you read already.
  * Some killer fonts, it's the New York Times!