NRKbeta: at a glance

NRKbeta’s facebook group has just passed the 1000 fans landmark, so I decided to take a look. What is it? What do they do? What do they write about? I was faced by the following screens, HP above the fold, and HP after first page-down. At a glance? Disturbing….

Of course, I must mention a couple of things. Firstly, you don’t really need to look at my screenshot, as you can just visit the website. Secondly, my own blog isn’t the best, neither design-wise nor usability-wise (however, I will improve on both as I have some time :-D).
But I’d expect a lot more from a project spinning off the Norwegian National Broadcasting service, and whose positioning I understand to be rather on the cool side of the spectrum. The posts themselves may be excellent, that I don’t know. But, frankly, at a glance, I was put off by the messy design….

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» oyvind said: { Jun 10, 2008 - 11:06:20 }

Hi, thanks for mentioning NRKbeta.

And yes, you’re right. NRKbeta looks more like NRKbeta beta now. And has been looking way to basic way too long. We have been working with a new and very much improved design for a long time. But due to other respnsibilities, server problems etc. we haven’t been able to finish the new design.

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