Some really interesting research from The Atlantic, which seems to confirm a pet theory of mine: Readers mental model is much different than our own. Those that use the homepage treat it as an index of the site’s content,…
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A collection of 6 posts
Digital news formats: the BBC explores linked data
Fascinating blog post exploring how the BBC is experimenting with linked data: After producing a long list of possible ‘problem spaces’ we prioritised four areas to explore: Location and linked data. How might we use geolocation and linked data to…
The Guardian responds - to your screen
The Guardian’s gone public with its responsive beta site (which should scale beautifully to whatever screen size you’re using). This is what the future of site design should look like. Probably. Of course, as a regular and attentive…
Why your website is ugly
Duncan Arthur: We’ve seen traditional publishers we applaud for beautifully designed print publications throw out their own rulebook for their web-based versions. High-end design, it seems, has been viewed as incompatible with amassing the glut of page views and…
One Man & His Blog: rebooted
All change! This blog has a brand new look, and for those of you in RSS readers, here’s a screengrab of it, with the explanation and thinking behind it afterwards: ![The new-look One Man & His Blog](https://i2.wp.…
dConstruct 2010: John Gruber on why your site needs an auteur
dConstruct is proving to be more a cultural conference rather than a design or tech one. And I don’t mean cultural in the “theatre, opera, arts, daaaahling” sense. No, it’s about the culture that surrounds the making of…