jamiek:

nostrich:

Pictured: The Huffington Post.

Quote one:

Most importantly, the HuffPo page is genuinely, compellingly, interactive — it’s almost impossible to visit it without finding something you want to click on. Like! Comment! Tweet! Go here! Try this! Visit that! There’s site navigation, yes, but that’s just one layer of a very rich and complex page architecture

Quote two:

One of the paradoxes of news media is that most of the time, the more you’re paying to use it, the harder it is to navigate. Sites like HuffPo make navigation effortless, while it can take weeks or months to learn how to properly use a Bloomberg or Westlaw terminal.

Both from the hands of Felix Salmon in Wired.

What.

Those quotes make me wonder if I have some weird sort of synesthesia where I perceive things differently than most people.

I think this user interface is a disaster.  I would never allow something like that in one of my designs (www.nbc4.com is worse).