Die online-Ausgabe des "Boston Globe" ( http://www.boston.com ) hat die "traditionelle" linke Navigationsleiste über Bord geworfen. In einem Interview mit Editor&Publisher.com erklärt Lisa DeSisto, vice president and general manager von boston.com die Neuerung:

The most significant change on the new site is the way we approach navigation now. If you look at the old site, the navigation menu had just grown and grown as we added new sections and features. It had really turned into a weed. We scaled it back [in the new site] to 10 major categories. Before we began the redesign, our focus groups told us that users wanted more information on each page. By having a fair amount of your page taken up by the left-hand navigation, it took away a lot of valuable real estate.

The left-hand bar is completely gone on the new site. I'm seeing more and more of that approach, so I think it's an industry trend. For a newspaper-driven Web site, it's really challenging to condense all your sections and content into nine categories. We did a lot of wireframing. We had many heated but healthy discussions. Once the design was chosen, we did a lot of one-on-one usability sessions to test the site. We really tried to respond to our readers in developing the new design and in making sure that it worked.
Also, wie wär's denn mit einem Kompass,....sagen wir mal oben rechts ? *lol*

Hier weiterlesen: Boston.com's Flexible Redesign.
[Via Poynter.org - Rich Gordon]