The English version of Al Jazeera’s website has been sporting an attractive new look, after a redesign.
What strikes you immediately, as an outcome,  is that you cannot generally go wrong if the home page is picture heavy. This is something that I have noticed with some recent redesigns; the reliance on picture-dominated layouts seems [...]

Firefox 4 Beta showed off its multitouch capability recently and the brave designers who are designing news websites may have to get used to a future in which browsers will routinely boast of touch based features.
So, that kind of interactivity will be not be restricted to those who have iPads or similar devices - Firefox’s [...]

How should news sites handle dissatisfied and grumpy readers after going through the rigours of a major redesign?
Here’s how two major organisations handled it.
Google News, which recently introduced major design changes, oriented mostly towards better personalisation, gave back readers a bit of what they wanted: "…some of you wrote in to say you [...]

We now have a fairly good idea of how the BBC news site is going to look like after the ongoing redesign, said to be the most substantial in recent years.
Some aspects of the redesign have been revealed earlier: that the navigation moves up, for instance. But in a post on a BBC blog, eidtor [...]

This redesign, which the world is talking about, has Google News developing its core aggregation model in the direction of customisation and personalisation. Google News continues to stick to its strength - which is all about getting machines to do the work of crunching news data from endless sources and moulding and filtering it as [...]

No, we are not talking about customization here.
No, not at all. I’m describing the interesting and curious case of Phyl Gyford who thought that there was a thing or two about news websites that needed to be sorted out. And he went ahead and did just that - on his own.

Now before we [...]

The BBC has completed its home page redesign.
There isn’t much of a departure from the design that was being tested out during beta.
The site makes use of colour to frame the key headlines. Designers who are conservative about using reverse video might have a thing or two to say about this. I think it adds [...]

The BBC has unveiled the beta of its new (portal) homepage and going by what has been disclosed about the  ongoing redesign effort so far, the changes are going to give a fresh look and feel to the site.
A previous post on this blog had referred to the changes to the basic news site page [...]

From the glimpses we have been offered of the ongoing BBC website redesign, the changes in the offing are going to be perhaps the most significant in recent years, but well short of being radical.
The grid composition is going to change.
"The new grid is based on 31 sixteen pixel columns with two left hand columns [...]

I was just listening to what newspaper designer Jacek Utko said at a TED conference a few months ago; and it seemed to me that the most important part of what he said came towards the end - his description of design as part of a process of ‘not chaning the look but improving the [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen had in an Alertbox column last year said that "users hate change, so it’s usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually." 
The reason - users have spent long hours using a site, even the few mintues they spend adds up to a lot of user hours over months and [...]