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AT Survey II: NYTimes Website ReDesign?

4-28--nytimes.jpgWe asked you a few weeks ago (the day it launched) if you found the new New York Times website an improvement. At that time you were quite displeased.

What do you think now that you've used it for awhile?


 
 

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I was happy to see the redesign when they unveiled it, and I have continued to be happy with it. I find it very easy to navigate and more videos!

posted by Szig on 2006-04-28 16:24:13

i guess, it copied the style of another newspaper - international herald tribune.. which also has the same style.

posted by price on 2006-04-28 17:32:59

price -- the times owns the international herald tribune.

posted by chirs on 2006-04-28 18:19:48

I think I was more upset about the redesign happening on a Monday morning than anything else.

It screwed with my daily routine of reading the paper online before heading off to work. Took me a bit of time to figure out the layout and how to get to my areas of interest. NOw I'm fine with it.

posted by TP on 2006-04-29 00:06:06

The NYTimes has looked the same since I first visited it waaay back in the dot-com years. It was definitely due for a tune-up and I like the new look.

posted by mary on 2006-04-29 11:31:31

It's impossible to navigate the front page on my iBook ...it displays in a distorted fashion, with various parts spread out all over the place interspersed with huge white spaces, so that you have to scroll this way and that to see where everything is. And for some reason, the articles take even longer to load now than they did before. I hate it!

posted by Jane on 2006-04-29 10:10:15

I agree with TP - Monday morning unveiling was just bad timing. Did they give us a heads-up that the design was going to change? It's my homepage, I look at it a million times a day and didn't see one.

posted by kleenex on 2006-04-29 13:40:27

It was awful when it launched and it is only slightly less awful now. I actually wrote to the NYT about the redesign, it's so bad.

It's cheap, gaudy-looking. The intermixture of content and ads isn't fooling anyone and it only seems to cheapen the actual articles themselves.

I could go on but won't. It *was* time for something different but this was just a really bad design. I beg: drop the blue and orange, reinstate Times New Roman and black.

I used to read the NYT all of the time and now I can barely stand to read the leading stories. I actually was a TimesSelect subscriber but I have ended my subscription in protest of this assault on my sensibilities. I don't give a crap what their columnists are saying if I have to suffer while reading it AND pay for the pleasure.

posted by Grey on 2006-04-30 14:33:15