I’ll admit I’m not the biggest sports fan. I know that the Super Bowl is coming up (football, right?), at hockey games you
watch the puck, and that Safeco Field has the best views of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound (only because I wasn’t watching the Mariners game I attended). But when msnbc.com’s Whine of the Week article plays the world’s smallest violin for well-paid sports-babies, I can’t get enough! So how did I become a Whine junkie in a section I rarely tread? Well, admittedly, I do work here in site UI design, so I sort of need to know where everything lives. But as I said, I’m not a sports fan, so where would a non-sporting, design-geek type find the very entertaining weekly Whine?
This is where you, our esteemed readers, come into play. What drives you to crossover into a topic you would have never gone before? Did you discover the Answer Desk by John Schoen accidentally or are you savvy with our business section? How about accessing yesterday’s
Nightly News netcast or clips from this morning’s
TODAY show? Did you see that 150-inch flat screen television in our special coverage of the
Consumer Electronics Show?
We want to know when, why and how to best showcase our exclusive content only found right here at msnbc.com.
Take a look at these design explorations below. Three of our features and coverage of a special event (the Consumer Electronics Show) are shown.
Do you enjoy the “sample platter” of varied content from across the site in one area?
Sample platter #1 (click to see the full-size version)
Sample platter #2 (click to see the full-size version)
Or do you prefer to exploring each category’s content to peruse the news and maybe find something that strikes you along the way?
Categorically correct: (click to see the full-size version)
Good or bad, we like to hear how you look at the news.
