Currents: Re-design of news site

This July, a designer named Andy Rutledge wrote an article accusing the current news site of being badly designed, pointing directly to the New York Times website

Some news sites do a better job, some do worse, but the New York Times is a typical http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8494.html > news website's poor design.

He points out in detail the various bad places in the website design and compares his own design with the existing one.

Then, some pros retorted, including Khoi Vinh, a former design director at the New York Times website. Khoi Vinh The behavior of Andy Rutledge as an "uninvited redesign": a public display of talent, with designers changing a famous website or electronic product and sharing the results with the world.

The key, he argues, is whether they will be able to create something that can be substantially better than the original. Whether the redesign is full of good ideas, whether the design is good, the reason is persuasive.

For Andy Rutledge's design, Khoi Vinh thinks there are some good ideas and is very professional in design, but the reasons for the designers are not very convincing.

He made some hasty assumptions, ignoring some of the key facts, and, worst of all, the way he was criticizing the producers of the original web site was a very stimulating one.

Harvard University Nieman Foundation's news experiment site Nieman Journalism Lab's Joshua Benton for Andy Rutledge's article also responded, he said, landscaping is not difficult, but the design of the site is a very complex thing, Many practical issues need to be taken into account. The New York Times has to output a lot of content every day, show the information need a) beautiful, B can be effective to find the story, C, priority to edit control.

The design of the New York Times is really aging, but the rutlege of the site is still too simple, more consideration for landscaping, B and C) issues.

Although the designer's ideas have been hit hard, many people agree with him. The WooThemes website is very interested in his design and has purchased the copyright exclusively. Now, according to Andy Rutledge concept design WordPress theme currents has been completed and published.

In an era when content consumption is increasingly focused on experience, we need more designers who think in bold and innovative ways.

This article comes from Co.Design

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