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While I don't like the quality of their news reporting, I think CNN is one of the few news entertainment companies that really understands web design and has a

While I don't like the quality of their news reporting, I think CNN is one of the few news entertainment companies that really understands web design and has a minimally coherent plan for integrating with the internet. A UX guy at my work was describing how the current design is used as almost a textbook example at a good tech school of a clean way of presenting information. Contrast that, for example, to nytimes.com which is literally designed to look as similar as possible to the newspaper. Like I said, their "journalism" is garbage but maybe some startup or media company can emulate their ability to create an interface that encourages users to explore.

GBKS 17y ago
Completely agree. The current design does a great job at "delivering the news" in a straightforward fashion with minimal user effort. The new design of the home page looks pretty interesting, I'll have to use it for a while to see how it works. First impression is too much imagery, not enough content and not enough content organization. Splitting content in text vs. video doesn't help to get a quick idea of what's going on in business/politics/local/... From recent experience, I'm not a big fan of CNN news reporting due to too many must-see "man bites dog" story, too many irrelevant "breaking news" and too much recycled content with new headlines slapped on. Reading CNN has mostly become a matter of figuring out what content is worth reading. The best redesign will not change this (unfortunately). Any guesses what "NewsPulse" will be? A real-time news aggregator?