The Year Ahead 2016
bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com
My only criticism was the boy in the moon animation to the left of the company list. That was distracting and made the UI feel chaotic. I also don't like the (full color) banner ads - they could have at least got one of their sponsors to do an ASCII art version of their ads!
The original magazine presentation - 6 full page spreads with 8 or 9 charts each - is way more readable. The higher information density of paper lets you glance at 9 companies at once and spend more time with what looks interesting. We tried to preserve some of the serendipity online with the short preview sentences on the left column, but the linear scroll through the charts takes away from that and makes it feel a little too chore like.
Sometimes translating to digital invites amazing improvements through interactivity (see what is code), but here we had a tight deadline and too many charts to redo them all in an interesting way w/ d3 so the digital focus was much more on the design side.
Ever since Joshua Topolsky joined Bloomberg, this novelty-over-form style is everywhere.
:-)
We did discuss just publishing a .txt or .nfo file instead, but some of the charts required a bit of ASCII cheating and being able to adjust font size & weight of labels really made them a lot more readable.
- Dolly Parton