Building the UI for the new The Times website
With The Times website getting a responsive overhaul you can bet there was a tonne of work that went into it… and you’re not wrong. Fortunately front end developer Pedro Duarte takes us through the process from collaboration, UI Structure, CSS, Refactor, QA and the Styleguide.
The redesign of The Times and The Sunday Times is all about content. It is about showing the right piece of news in its dedicated amount of space on the screen. The challenge of keeping this sort of strict hierarchy in a responsive layout determined by content can be difficult.
Redesigning and rebuilding a new website for such a large organisation is not an easy task. I don’t mean this in a technical sense. With so many people who care about the product, conflicting opinions and ideas are part of day-to-day. The key here is to not let yourself become emotionally attached to your code. Kill your babies.
An excerpt from Building the UI for the new The Times website
