These days most of us get our news online. As such, it's important for news web sites to be very user friendly and a pleasure to read. Yet so many news sites rely on the same column layout styles. The New York Times, however, gives us news how we actually read news: by skimming. Each bit of information is in the same size box (except the one feature story, which is two boxes), so that our eyes are able to skim easily because each article is of equal weight. This definitely satisfies the OCD-style order we all secretly crave.
10.18.2009
ARTICLE SKIMMER
These days most of us get our news online. As such, it's important for news web sites to be very user friendly and a pleasure to read. Yet so many news sites rely on the same column layout styles. The New York Times, however, gives us news how we actually read news: by skimming. Each bit of information is in the same size box (except the one feature story, which is two boxes), so that our eyes are able to skim easily because each article is of equal weight. This definitely satisfies the OCD-style order we all secretly crave.
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