23 November 2009

Oh no…. What happened to Mid-day website ?

Year 2001-02 when we used to dig into gossip columns and local Mumbai flavour news and we used to get a lot more satisfaction in Mid-Day.com website, mind it only website, newspaper version was always like a cheap advertisement pamphlet utter useless, but website was different, we used to enjoy reading articles, especially local news, Gossips from film industry. They were unique. There was a time when I would also give this as example for good user experience in lots of forum.

Now looke what is happened to them in last 2-3 years. It is now one of the hopeless and worst website I have ever seen. They seemed to be impressed by the idea of epaper it seems, but no way it really sucks. They might have changed website 2-3 times in these short span. God knows what are they upto, its horrible, just check at your own risk http://www.mid-day.com/.

A Perfect case study to showcase on how a good news portal can be completely screwed by choosing bad design. I was wondering who in the earth felt like moving in this direction.

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