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		sjs382 on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Response to the NYTimes redesign article by Martin... "Unsolicited redesign" blog posts are just linkbait posts that ignore the most important part of redesigning a major website: user testing. These unsolicited redesign posts just feed the author's ego and redesign a website with one user in mind: the author.

benjaminasmith on July 26, 2011 [–]

This is exactly the point that Martin Belam makes:

  So, if anyone wants to pick up the challenge and build a 
  prototype of Andy’s redux from our content, I’d love to 
  see it...and test it with users.

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