This amazing project on Cali produced by the newspaper El Pais, contains video, galleries, maps and infographics. While a great immersive experience for the user, this won’t be the future for all online news as the production cost and time would never make it viable.
For those who missed Wired magazine creative director Scott Dadich’s inspiring presentation at Semi-Permanent Sydney earlier this year, he gave a similar talk to design company IDEO covering everything from photo shoots to commissioning typefaces. There’s more follow-up reading with plenty of pictures at a photo editor and eye blog.
Design agency CX Partners leans on 6 years of user testing to declare that “the fold” is dead: users don’t mind scrolling. More than anything else, this highlights the importance of getting the first ‘fold’ worth of your pages, especially as more users land on pages from search results and make snap judgements of whether to read a page at all, or simply click back to their search results.
This TED talk by Hans Rosling is an excellent example of how powerful data and good story telling can explain more in 20 minutes than words, photos, multimedia or video could ever hope too. Hans uses data with the Gapminder system in a presentation to burst myths about the developing world and prove that the developing world is not who you think it is.