BBC News Website Redesign

For those of us who use the BBC News website on a daily basis we woke up on 14th July to a brand new design & layout.

The eagle eyed among you may have seen the BBC’s intentions were announced around a week in advance to give people warning and a slideshow explaining some of the new features to be included – an excellent way to ‘soften the blow’ for the average user who’s become use to the existing layout.

Reaction to the redesign has been mixed as you may expect; change is always frustrating at first and while the BBC have made every effort to cater for everyone there were always going to be issues people would like resolved.

Rather than discuss the pros and cons of the redesign I wanted to provide a number of resources to the BBC team behind it, their thoughts and explanations of what’s gone on and why they believe the decisions they made were right. As a collection, the following links give a great insight into the thought processes behind the redesign of such a large website; not just for the latest stage but the development of the BBC’s new Visual Language.

Steven Herrman – BBC News Website Editor

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BBC Internet Blog

• BBC News website redesign: telling the story (Paul Sissons)
• A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services (Bronwyn van der Merwe)