Guardian Unlimited – the new look explained from Guardian Unlimited
I’ve never really got into the Guardian’s online presence (although I _love_ their redesigned newspaper format), but they’ve just launched a massively re-engineered page design. I’ve waited for this for a while…they’d really got their design chops on with Comment Is Free, and I can see the design structure from there seeping it’s way into an overall design strategy.
I like it, in fact I really like it…I’m going to default to it vs. my old fave, BBC News, and see how I like it.
Fantastic use of whitespace and a wider page layout really works well…wonder if they have a decent mobile version??
And this is a nice, thoughtful touch:
“And there is an opportunity for more serendipitous browsing in the vertical stack of picture-led links, which showcases a miscellany of our favourite things on the site.