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New at Sutori #2 - Story Capsule Re-Design

November 30th, 2006

We’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about ways to make the Sutori experience better for users — easier, more fun, more clearly useful. One of the first real changes to come out of all this thinking is the newly re-designed story capsule.

We chose the story capsule first because it’s the fundamental browsing unit. The summary view of a story that users can skim through as the decide when and if they want to go deeper.

Here’s what it used to look like.

And here’s the new version:

The biggest changes are:

• Instead of representing the stories goodwill rating with a single block of color, we show the entire spectrum of goodwill with a dot to represent this story’s rating (far left).
• The agree/disagree numbers are clearly identified as such.
• The name of the company is now featured right next to the title.

Early feedback has been mostly positive, although some of you have indicated that without the thick blocks of warm color the home page looks a bit colder. Hopefully, the improved usability makes up for this aesthetic trade-off.

As always, we’re dying to hear your thoughts . . . so what do you think?

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