photoshop

I’ve written before on how the differences between the designs of CNN and Fox News tend to make me go to CNN more often for news. Over the holiday I decided to do a Photoshop mock-up of what I think the Fox News’s site should look like. It still looks overloaded with content and a little crude, but I wanted to try and maintain everything that they present on the homepage. You can view the design here.

The most important thing about my design is that everything is modularized (a word I kind of hate but use anyway). The current design is pretty hap-hazard, with no real definition of boundary. Plus, with this design, it’s easy to see that we can make the page more dynamic, adding features similar to what MSNBC has, where the user can define the order in which he wants to see each content module.

I also cleaned up the header a lot. Right now, everything looks detached and kind of thrown in there. I made the logo blend with the rest of the header, fixed the navigation a bit, and confined the shows they had to one tab. When the user clicks on it, it would look like this. Similarly, the “Breaking News” bar looks like it fits, as seen here.

Overall, I think I did a pretty good job of getting rid of extraneous elements, text that looks like it doesn’t belong, and creating defined borders for each content module. Of course, this is just a quick mock-up and if given the time (or opportunity?), there is some refactoring that can be done. And hey, if you’re from Fox News and you like what you see, maybe we can talk- I do need a job after I graduate in May!