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Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian
- corin_ 15y agoUsers 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 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?
- benjaminasmith 15y agoI 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.
- sebkomianos 15y agoThe site is down, any cached or working links?
- ehutch79 15y agonope went down too quick. coral cache doesnt have it anyways.
- sjs382 15y ago"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.
- benjaminasmith 15y agoThis 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.