Re: Online magazines vs print

My personal experience: Once I'm reading the article, it doesn't need to look or act anything like the hard copy. But to find articles when I've already seen the paper magazine, I expect to see something familiar to guide me, e.g., a replication of the cover headline layout. Of course, if it's online only, that's irrelevant.

--- On Fri, 7/18/08, Hal Shubin <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Hal Shubin <[email protected]>
Subject: Online magazines vs print
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 5:57 PM

Have you worked with an online magazine or journal?

Do they expect it to be just like a print journal just moved onto a 
computer, or is it OK if it's all Web style (whatever that is)? And 
if the journal moved from print to Web only, does that change anything?

I did a study that included something like this, and I think most 
people wanted the familiar appearance -- table of contents, articles, 
etc, just like the print version.

thanks				-- hs

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Hal Shubin
Interaction Design, Inc.
617 489 6595
www.user.com

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