Comments on: What if a newspaper was designed using principles of user experience design?

By: Web Usability and Them | Tech Startups

Web Usability and Them | Tech Startups — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:02:15 +0000

[...] What if a newspaper was designed using principles of user experience design? (onlinejournalismblog.com) [...]

By: Swiss paper could’ve (should’ve) become more user friendly « jay.blog

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:09:43 +0000

[...] why I find this story about Swiss newspaper’s quest for a redesign very interesting (via OJB). The premise, here, is that a design company, Information Architects, was one of five groups that [...]

By: The Digital Week «

The Digital Week « — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:51:31 +0000

[...] Journalism Blog recently reported on a pitch process which saw Information Architects present a complete re-design to Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. Their pitch failed, but their design was very impressive and [...]

By: Website Design Sydney

Website Design Sydney — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:34:06 +0000

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By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:18:54 +0000

My training may have been a long time ago, but one thing drummed into me was “people read down, not across”. It’s wisdom that has been lost to the newspaper business ever since The Guardian started its ruled-off, flat looking redesign many years ago – but I’m surprised the idea doesn’t appear to feature in the example shown of Information Architects’ work.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:40:32 +0000

[...] What if a newspaper was designed using principles of user experience design? [...]

By: Nicolas Holzapfel

Nicolas Holzapfel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:53 +0000

Very interesting idea of theirs, thanks for bringing it to my attention (via Twitter). However they didn’t implement their stated aim to ‘use all knowledge from contemporary user experience design and translate it to paper’.

What they actually did was take well-established principles about web usability and translate them to paper. User experience design involves much more than. User research and actual usability testing were the most glaring omissions.

What they did was still really interesting and valuable, it just wasn’t what they say it is in their blog.

By: Orlando Web Designing

Orlando Web Designing — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:06:43 +0000

Very good idea. News paper is looking different than any other. But the framing is good. You also say that text scanning is possible. It makes this idea very useful.

By: Adrian Short

Adrian Short — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:32:52 +0000

Much of my work at the moment is around linking the physical (including print) and digital worlds. What’s interesting about this design (among other things) is the way in which the blue highlighted keywords are given specific prominence and meaning within the newspaper’s website’s search:

[I]f you type any of those key words on the website search, you will get a list of articles in a chronological order about that subject. Links in print obviously doesn’t mean that you can click it, it means linking the paper to the online edition.

This is a much more elegant and aesthetic approach than printing URLs.