This is UI madness, things hides, moves and pop around with no obvious relation with my input.
The main news timeline is promising though, but greatly needs visual codes for differentiating and qualifying content.
It's great to focus on the content while not putting technology asides, but your publishing tool is also of strategical importance. It's great to have rethought the general way of showing information, but this is, to me, clearly half baked.
Comparing that with your submission title (for whatever it means, it evokes technology), makes me think you have a problem here.
First, I just stumbled on this and am not affiliated with it.
Second, I agree that some parts of the UI are overkill. Keep in mind that it has been designed for tablets and phones though: "(...) built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones."
The title of this post is taken from the text the link points to. From the text itself: "Developers and journalists, sometimes one-and-the-same, sit next to each other in the Quartz newsroom as we continually iterate and experiment."
I'm simply happy to see someone trying something new.
Keep in mind it has been designed for tablets and phones though
This actually highlights one of my pet peeves: that web pages need special "mobile enhanced" versions. 90% of the time, a "mobile web page" is just worse than the original. I have to ask: do the guys designing these "mobile" web pages actually use tablets or smartphones? Because what part of "mobile" means "ruin the usability and make sure a lot of awkward javascript-emulated touch gestures are involved"?
These mobile and tablet optimized UI's are really annoying for those of us who still use a regular computer from time to time (i.e nearly everyone). I mean how hard is it to support two UI paradigms? one for mobile/tablet and one for desktop/laptop. Isn't easy separation of content and presentation one of the core benefits of web frameworks?
Another news site that's gone full tilt tablet UI is pandodaily, but at least their site renders correctly and is mostly usable (both not optimally so) for a desktop/laptop user.
Are the costs just too high to support two presentation layers such that shops will bet on mobile/tablet users over all others?
The most annoying is that scrolling can change the article without warning, and scrolling in the opposite direction may or may not return you to the article you actually wanted to read. Maybe it depends on the browser, but I have the same behavior on the Android browser and desktop Firefox.
The only full-screen responsive layout for articles that I like so far is smashing magazine... They know not to have all these fancy floating nav bars, or to have this crazy "scroll to the next article" thing. Pages should be treated as pages. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
The main news timeline is promising though, but greatly needs visual codes for differentiating and qualifying content.
It's great to focus on the content while not putting technology asides, but your publishing tool is also of strategical importance. It's great to have rethought the general way of showing information, but this is, to me, clearly half baked.
Comparing that with your submission title (for whatever it means, it evokes technology), makes me think you have a problem here.