Why the Globe&Mail redesign sucks on an iPhone
Much has been of the Globe&Mail’s redesigned website (also of their print edition, which I only read on flights), but they’ve totally failed those of us who read their content through a feed reader, especially on an iPhone.
On a full desktop platform, their news items in the feed reader contain insufficient information: far from publishing full feeds of the news articles, which would be my preference, their posts often have no description, or a completely inadequate description that doesn’t tell me enough about the article to want to click through to it. Some of the posts also have all-caps headings, which are difficult to read and unattractive (and recognized as SHOUTING by anyone who has used the web for more than 5 minutes).
On an iPhone in Google Reader, it gets much worse:
The lack of descriptions (and full feeds, for that matter) requires you to click through to the item to see the content. Unfortunately, when you get there, it displays 13 screens in order to show a single screen of content.
I realize that you can’t test every website on every possible platform, but c’mon: if you’re not testing one of the most popular feed readers on one of the most popular mobile platforms, you’re not doing your job.
