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Articles tagged user experience (15)

Christine SchmidtOctober 29, 2018

Hunting for reader revenue, Scroll sets up shop for 2019 with more publishers and $10 million raised

“The model is designed to reward engagement and loyalty. We think those things are the currency of publishing in the future, that relationship with the consumer. The better you do at that, the better you do under Scroll.”

Michelle ManafyApril 19, 2018

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?

That depends on whether you want users or an audience.

Joseph LichtermanOctober 30, 2015

Can’t finish a New Yorker story online? The magazine will now send you an email reminder to come back

The widget, which will be open sourced, was created by a developer who began working on it as a personal side project.

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 29, 2015

Two out of two news organizations recommend user research

Here’s how ProPublica and The New York Times are pioneering user experience research within their organizations.

Joshua BentonMay 1, 2015

Circa, the buzzed-about mobile news app, is running out of money

Its core ideas have always been compelling, but Circa has been unable to find an audience large enough to attract new investment.

Is your news site too slow? Probably, though The Guardian’s trying to speed theirs up

Joshua BentonApril 2, 2014

NYT Now, out today, mixes lots of good mobile-centric ideas with moments of caution

The new product from The New York Times is the most interesting app produced by a traditional American news outlet in years. But can it differentiate itself from the Times’ main app — and find a paying audience?

Jeff IsraelyDecember 3, 2013

Jeff Israely: Redesigns are an ongoing process, not a single launch moment

Our startup correspondent, building Worldcrunch in Paris, says overly ambitious designs can cause a problem: “You start to produce the content to serve the container.”

Nothing builds user rage quite like bad mobile usability

Chris AmicoApril 24, 2013

Reuters bets big on context, structure and dataviz to understand power in China

Connected China is an experiment in breaking out of the incremental story — trying to create a summative, regularly updated visualization of who leads China.

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