looks like the FAZ http://www.faz.net
FAZ is better, easier to go through the homepage.
The New York Times Redesign is Live
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#32If I may take a moment to whinge and whine a tad; Websites like this infuriate me because for all their "design", sites like Reddit and HN (which are basically just lists) are delivering news in a much more consumable fashion, better suited to the eating habits of the common or garden user.
Who's to blame? The designers with their need to make their own mark? The suits with their demands that the business needs be met regardless of the way the world actually works? Probably both.
Also, I think Digg deserves more credit for finding a successful mid point between lists and designed layouts.
That's not to say there's no room for design, but this new NYT layout is anything but design. It's the same wall of information with sporadic and indecipherable levels of emphasis made to look mildly palatable for another couple of years. If the NYT has anything interesting to say, I'll wait for it to appear on HN, Digg or Reddit.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
they redirect to mobile.* though
So they still hold on to the old train of thought of desktop users and mobile users. Shame really.
As a person that currently maintains separate versions for desktop and mobile - it is not shameful. It is just good sense.
You are still constrained with a lot of low power devices on the mobile side and old versions of IE on the desktop side. So it is big PITA to reconcile all of this.
In 5 year they will converge but right now it is too early.
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#35Seems like they increased the font size, at least slightly? Which would definitely be a positive thing in my opinion. Anyone have side-by-side screenshots?
This page shows older versions of the site in a carousel towards the bottom: http://www.nytimes.com/redesign/
Thanks. That makes it look like I imagined the font increase, at least on the homepage.
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#36The changes on the homepage a minimal, howserver they have made some big changes to the artical pages ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/business/international/asi... ). Note that you can now scroll through the entire article, no clicking next three times!
Looks very similar to the NPR blog articles now. I like this trend - long, clean single page articles.
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#37I'm underwhelmed. They should have hired the firm that did http://globe.com . I'm actually puzzled they didn't considering their ownership of the Globe at the time of that redesign.
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#38How do you like the typography? I find e.g. the italic font for the headlines in the left column or the small all caps serif format of the bylines to be somewhat detrimental to readability.
I am under the impression that everything is smaller.
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#39If I may take a moment to whinge and whine a tad; Websites like this infuriate me because for all their "design", sites like Reddit and HN (which are basically just lists) are delivering news in a much more consumable fashion, better suited to the eating habits of the common or garden user. Who's to blame? The designers with their need to make their own mark? The suits with their demands that the business needs be me…
It's not "bosses v. designers", it's a newspaper failing to grasp that when you put a newspaper online it doesn't have the same visual constraints a printed newspaper have. Either that, or it's the newspaper totally getting that they do need to look like that to not confuse the heck out of the large constituency of readers that are slightly older and less tech-savvy than the Reddit crowd.
But yeah, I'm with you, I'm pretty far down the procrastination list before I open a newspaper web-front-page.
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#40How do you like the typography? I find e.g. the italic font for the headlines in the left column or the small all caps serif format of the bylines to be somewhat detrimental to readability.
I was just going to say the font sucks, there's a million free fonts on google fonts that look great... and they appear to have gone with times new roman for no particular reason.