eno #9

Make your own judgements but I think the redesign is pretty……… awful. Go ahead, look at it. NYTIMES.

The question I ask is “What the hell am I supposed to be looking at?”

Where is my eye supposed to look? How can I scan to headlines when they are buried into the text of articles?

Sure it’s better than what they had before (Is it?) but the net seems to be heaping on the praise as if it’s a work of art. My god the story headlines are buried in the text of the articles, the left hand nav bar is barley discernable as anythng other than text. Is there any navigation that one can see with a glance? Holy crap the home page is a beast for gods sake!  Oh but the ads are very findable, of course! Gotta pay the bills I understand that, but at some point the brand gets crushed by the ads.

All in all how long did they spend on this?

PS I do like the idea of tabbed navigation at the top but I am not sure the average user will see it.

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