NYT article skimmer redux
I forgot to say what I specifically like about the New York Times article skimmer. There are really two things that stand out to me:
1. It provides roughly equal weight to all of the content choices available under each subject heading. That allows me to focus on searching the content instead of trying to decipher the site’s visual and editorial hierarchy.
2. It loads everything into a single frame or viewer. When I select a new subject it just reloads the same frame with a fresh batch of results. I don’t have to scroll. I don’t have to try and understand a new environment. I’m in the same environment, it’s just the information available to me that has changed.
One of the missing pieces to the puzzle is that when I do click on a story in the skimmer it takes me to a standard story page. I hope that they’ll further develop the skimmer product so that it loads the story into the skimmer window in a layout that is specific to that environment.