15 years of NYTimes.com homepages

by gabriela on 29/03/2011

Some major changes, not always apparent in the video:

  • cleaner navigation
  • ‘My Times’ a personalized NYTimes.com
  • articles are more scanneable and scrolleable
  • more videos, and better players
  • the sections of most popular, most emailed, most blogged
  • Times topics (articles organized by categories and not just sections)
  • Articles can be printed and shared online

Years of trial and error redesigns, facelifts, surgeries and tests implemented by the NYTimes.com design team to keep in check. Admirable? Absolutely. Enough? No. What happened with less but better?

There are 3 comments in this article:

  1. 30/03/2011Héctor says:

    El cambio de 2005 a 2006, vaya… me parece un salto de gigante.

  2. 30/03/2011Gabriela Lendo says:

    That’s right Héctor. As a matter of fact that’s the year one of the greatest redesigns of the NYTimes.com took place. Our screenshot is from May and the redesign was launched on April. You can see how much mowing and plowing they did with the new redesign by comparing the size of the homepage with previous years in our homepage bar chart. You can also see how, like in any garden, weeds started growing back in.

    If you want to read more, Khoi Vinh (former Director of the Design Team at the NYTimes.com talks a bit about the redesign (not made by him by the way) in this post
    http://www.subtraction.com/2006/04/03/the-awesome-

  3. 31/03/201115 años de portadas del NYTimes.com — Sicrono says:

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