Direct link: <a href="https://interviewjs.io/" rel="nofollow">https://interviewjs.io/</a><p>Demo: <a href="https://story.interviewjs.io/sample-story" rel="nofollow">https://story.interviewjs.io/sample-story</a><p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/AJInteractive/InterviewJS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AJInteractive/InterviewJS</a><p>I tried it out, and I was unimpressed. It's a cool experiment and maybe there are useful applications, but this doesn't feel like the future of journalism to me.
This seems exceptionally silly to me. When giving an interview, the person being interviewed expects to have their interview presented in the order the questions are asked. There's a bunch of context you lose when ignoring the order. This interface basically amplifies all the problems inherent in 'soundbites' and makes it 1000x worse.
I think this is an extremely interesting interface. Not only for journalist interviews but for personal brand sites.<p>Take a look at Adrian Zumbrunnen's personal site: <a href="https://azumbrunnen.me/" rel="nofollow">https://azumbrunnen.me/</a><p>(Unfortunately their SSL cert has expired so you have to click "Proceed Anyway")<p>It's an embedded chat with Adrian.<p>I feel like it's an equally valid experience vs. reading their CV and recent projects. By clicking through the chat I not only learn about the site author's expertise but also learn a bit about their personality.<p>I know I'm not really chatting with them but it still feels more personal and human.
It’s funny—I love this format for Quartz but don’t like it much here. I think a small portion of it is some missing animation but the bigger piece in the chosen content. IMO, it works for Quartz because the format is headline followed by selecting between more info and next story. The “more info” flow usually results in 2-4 additional messages about the story, perhaps with one additional interaction. Quick and easy. A full interview feels like too much for this format.<p>Recommend you check out the Quartz app if you think the format could be interesting.
Well, it's an interesting concept I'll give them that. It does what it says it does, and provides a slightly more interactive layout for an interview.<p>But at the same time, it's just really not worth using to be honest with you. I mean, how exactly does this benefit the reader or make the interview more enjoyable to read?<p>It doesn't. It breaks without JavaScript, it takes forever for you to read the whole interview and it breaks tons of simple browser functionality aspects like being able to search the page or jump to a specific question easily. It's like the people who created it made it not because it improved the user experience, but because they wanted to be different for the sake of being different.<p>Yeah, I think I'll stick to the traditional text interview format with all the questions and answers on one page thank you very much. At least those (like the ones on my own site) don't break the browser and let users get to the bloody point.
No. Just no.<p>The BBC has just started doing this / something similar with their royal wedding coverage* and I found it incredibly irritating. No longer can you scan an article, but instead have to traverse a <i>choose-your-own-adventure</i> style chatbot to get the information you’re used to simply scanning the article for. I probably also especially despised it because the journalism on these new segments seems to be overly poppy/gossipy (an attempt to fit to the chat format, I guess).<p>Perhaps I’m in a minority of users here, as a developer who can see past the UI gimmick. Emulating one of the most pervasive UI/UX paradigms (mobile chat) could prove useful and refreshing to the majority of readers. I’m just not sold yet.<p>I feel a more solid approach — if publishers really want to make their written content more interactive — would be to organise the information from an interview / article into topics that can be dived-into via a visual hierarchy of information.<p>*Can’t load a reference on mobile browser.
It looks like an existing interview transformed into a non-live interactive chat where you are given preselected questions to choose from.<p>I didn't understand that from their write up. Am I missing something?