{"id":548,"date":"2009-10-04T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-10-04T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T19:24:48","slug":"designing-the-interface-for-a-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/designing-the-interface-for-a-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing the interface for a newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BeforevsAfter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"BeforevsAfter\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BeforevsAfter_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BeforevsAfter\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/informationarchitects.jp\/tages-anzeiger-paper-redesign-pitch-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">iA blog<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Swiss Miss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/2009\/09\/the-story-of-a-beautiful-failure.html\" target=\"_blank\">SwissMiss<\/a> I just stumbled on <a title=\"Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure\" href=\"http:\/\/informationarchitects.jp\/tages-anzeiger-paper-redesign-pitch-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> from Oliver Reichenstein from Information Architects about their pitch for the redesign of Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end their pitch didn\u2019t win, but they had some great ideas in there.\u00a0\u00a0 I especially like their idea of highlighting the key words in an article in blue to make scanning stories easier.\u00a0 They would also use those keywords to simplify finding the same articles on the website.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where newspapers are rapidly loosing ground to web based competition, ideas like these might help make the old paper media more relevant to readers who have grown used to the web.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the <a title=\"Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure\" href=\"http:\/\/informationarchitects.jp\/tages-anzeiger-paper-redesign-pitch-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> was an interesting read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Keywords.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Keywords\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Keywords_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Keywords\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>In this image you can just about make out the blue highlighted keywords (Images from the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/informationarchitects.jp\/tages-anzeiger-paper-redesign-pitch-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>iA blog<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled on this post from Oliver Reichenstein from Information Architects about their pitch for the redesign of Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.  In a world where newspapers are rapidly loosing ground to web based competition, ideas like these might help make the old paper media more relevant to readers who have grown used to the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[66,334,335],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-design","tag-newspapers","tag-publishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}