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The Financial Times and "the worst online redesign I have ever seen"
Site redesigns are seldom initially popular - you only need to ask BBC News about that - but the new Financial Times homepage seems to have come in for some especially harsh criticism. On The Guardian site yesterday, Andrew Brown launched a withering attack on the redesign, calling it "the worst online redesign I have ever seen". "It is ugly, uninformative and actively confusing. Instead of presenting a lot of information quickly and quietly, it presents very little, slowly, and...

Read the full post - Published November 21, 2008 in Media, Newspapers, Web

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 11
Transforming your results During the course of this series of articles, I've looked at various elements of interface design which have been employed, for better or for worse, across a wide range of European newspaper websites. Today I'm going to wrap up the series by laying out a step-by-step transformation of Google's search results listing into something that presents users who opt for 'site search' with a richer UI experience. Google's layout In part 2 of this series, I...

Read the full post - Published November 20, 2008 in IA Summit, Search

Another threat to local newspapers - daily BBC horoscopes by email!
I love a good spam email title - and I was amused by a sudden rash of spam that appeared last week promising 'Your horoscope every day from BBC'. It was only for a second that I considered it might be genuine, and yet more evidence that the BBC was carefully marching towards occupying every niche market currently served by the UK's beleaguered local newspaper businesses ;-)...

Read the full post - Published November 20, 2008 in BBC, Newspapers, Web

FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifying website review - Scotland
During the course of this year's World Cup Qualifiers, I've been looking at the FA websites of the countries that England have been playing. With it being an international friendly night, inspired by a comment from 'Uncle Wilco', I thought I'd look at the website of one of the other 'Home Nations'. Earlier in the year, when the Scottish FA were consulting with their fans over whether the expense of bringing Argentina to play in Glasgow was worth it,...

Read the full post - Published November 19, 2008 in 2010 World Cup, Football, Web

Tom Dunmore of Stuff says print magazines have a future..."for the moment"
I was at an event at the Dana Centre last night to mark the launch of Jack Challoner's book "Desirable Future?: Consumer Electronics in Tomorrow's World". One of the panel was Tom Dunmore, editor of the UK edition of Stuff magazine. Part of the format of the evening involved breaking into small discussion groups, and I had a chance to ask Tom, how, as a publication talking about new technology, he saw their position in an industry seemingly staring into...

Read the full post - Published November 19, 2008 in Media