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I know first impressions are not always the best, but I find it much harder to read the titles quickly. Take a look at Mashable, for example -- scrolling throug
by jonathanjaeger 13y ago
I know first impressions are not always the best, but I find it much harder to read the titles quickly. Take a look at Mashable, for example -- scrolling through that is a mess. I had no problem with the old TechCrunch design and now I feel there are so many competing things happening at the same time. AllThingsD article titles are right there and the contrast in color and clean design makes it easier to scroll.
- cheald 13y agoFWIW, the Mashable design was constructed with a focus on visual content over serial order of headlines; for those of us that are used to an RSS reader, it's less optimal, but it was intentional after coming to a better understanding of our core audience. It's worked out quite well for us.
- jonathanjaeger 13y agoThanks for the clarification, cheald! Of course you did user testing and know your audience way better than I do, haha, but the design just irks me for my way of consuming Mashable content. So my opinion is as always my own subjective taste (selfishly). But I do still consume some of the content :)
- cheald 13y agoI totally understand - I wasn't nuts about it, either, since I really do tend to like serial textual information, rather than more undirected visual information. It's grown on me, though (looking at it for hours on end will do that!), and it's been hard to argue with the analytics!