I love it. Black text is so much more legible than all that other noise. It's a newspaper, not an e-commerce site: the point is to read the articles, not to be distractedly clicking links mid sentence like Wikipedia. Rollovers are subtle but discoverable.
Not so sure about the red italics for unimportant update info, although I like the blue for offsite links. A side note that I recently discovered the learn more ? balloon on the NYTimes website. Click and drag to select text, and a ? appears, allowing you to search on the term in a secondary window. (Unfortunately the default is to search Answers.com, but you can switch it to the NYTimes archive.) They've added metadata to links, so you get a help balloon that might say "learn more" or it might say "links to an Iraqi blog on elections." It doesn't work on the home page, only on the articles. Very subtle. Maybe like the LA Times, a little too subtle for some tastes. But I hope a sign of where we're headed, if the main print journalism sources survive the next decade. Diana On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Steven Johnson<steven.john...@disney.com> wrote: > The new L.A. Times web redesign launched last night. > > IA-wise, it's basically the same site, but the look-and-feel more > strongly embraces the print idiom (e.g., Georgia font). > > I feel like the big news is that they've dropped link colors from > headlines, nav, etc. > > Latimes.com is my alma mater (1999-2006), and I now also teach web > publishing at Annenberg School of Journalism at USC. > > I'd really like to get some feedback on the redesign from the > IxD/UED community to bring back to the J-school and print publishing > worlds. > > Please have a look: http://www.latimes.com/ > > Thanks. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
