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Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin Belam of the Guardian

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  Users want to see the people in the stories, not the people writing them.

Truthfully I hope this is a case where media people aren't giving enough credit to their audience (as opposed to a case where I'm just a minority - though I suspect this is more the case).

I mean, in a story, sure, pictures can be great. But when deciding which story to read, e.g. when reading a list of headlines, I surely can't be the only one with a long enough attention span to actually read the headlines and decide based on what the story is, without needing a small picture to draw me in?

I think you've misunderstood his point: he's saying that that the audience would rather see pictures of the story than a picture of the author.

In Andy's original article, his mockup featured photos of the authors next to some headlines. But of course, a photo of the story is far more useful than a photo of the correspondent.

"Unsolicited redesign" blog posts are just linkbait posts that ignore the most important part of redesigning a major website: user testing.

These unsolicited redesign posts just feed the author's ego and redesign a website with one user in mind: the author.

This is exactly the point that Martin Belam makes:

  So, if anyone wants to pick up the challenge and build a 
  prototype of Andy’s redux from our content, I’d love to 
  see it...and test it with users.

The site is down, any cached or working links?

nope went down too quick. coral cache doesnt have it anyways.

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