Usability Guru on NYT’s Mobile Site
Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru, left a comment on our sister site paidContent.org, in response to the NYTimes.com’s new mobile site (which we wrote about here):
“They need to edit their decks more tightly. The story summaries are too verbose for mobile reading, making for too much scrolling. And they should skip the bylines on the initial page – they take up an entire line and are not sufficiently important for the tiny screen.
Photos should be selected judiciously. For example, the article â
I remember trying to convince CNN to do that for their mobile deck, in 1999. I was at a major carrier. They scoffed.