Welcome to the new Conversations

Published by Phil on October 21, 2011

GLOBAL – Over the last six months we’ve been on a bit of a journey behind the scenes here at Conversations. We wanted to do more with the site. Deliver bigger, better content. Make our readers think. And attract new readers who don’t necessarily even use our phones.

Inspiration has come from the best of the modern Web, but also from some very traditional sources. We all really love magazines, for example: the best ones constantly strive to surprise their readers and present them with features that delight and challenge. We miss that feeling of finding something you didn’t expect but is really great. The Web hasn’t been especially good at that historically. It’s good at finding exactly what you want, but not at stretching or surprising you.

For that reason, we wanted to create a site that encouraged play and exploration so we’ve completely redesigned the navigation on the site and the way that stories are presented. We want to keep our best content easy to find, at the same time as leading people to content they might not otherwise find.

We also wanted the space to create longer, broader, more in-depth stories. And to talk about topics that go a lot further than we’ve done before. So we’ve beefed up the team – you’ll have seen some new faces around the place over the past couple of weeks, with Trevor and Karen joining the editorial crew. We also want to make sure our stories shine visually, so we’ve also brought on a full time art director, Jamie. He’ll be creating a brand new home page every day for the site to present you with the best and boldest content.

If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at the video above. It goes a bit deeper into the new features. Or maybe it’s time to just start exploring.

Update: Comments are being resynchronized with Disqus. Don’t worry – we have them all backed up and they’ll be in place as soon as possible.

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  • Anonymous

    God, I loved this phone. It was my first Nokia phone ever. I was blown away with its slide down action :). My second phone was 8850.
    I am a huge fan for Nokia exclusive line 8xxx (8910, 8800, 8600 (Luna), Arte…), having all of them in my “private” collection – nowdays collecting dust in some drawer, but I do miss those days when Nokia used exquisite materials (stainless steel, titanium, SKF ball bearings…) in their top (by materials used not features) products.

    Cheers,
    Miki

    • Anonymous

      I’m going to buy a 7110 on eBay.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ooset Athisa Taber

    Nokia is the birthplace of gsm handsets. But I want an Android powered nokia phone. :-)

  • https://openid.org/stefanp StefanP

    I owned one, too. Have to say that it was much easier and quicker to make a simple phone than nowadays with a Smartphone. Even my E72 needs a moment to load the address book. 7110 and the like were much faster. Also the “heads up” which we try to achieve with the latest UIs like Swipe did exist already to some degree earlier.

  • https://openid.org/stefanp StefanP

    I owned one, too. Have to say that it was much easier and quicker to make a simple phone than nowadays with a Smartphone. Even my E72 needs a moment to load the address book. 7110 and the like were much faster. Also the “heads up” which we try to achieve with the latest UIs like Swipe did exist already to some degree earlier.

  • https://openid.org/stefanp StefanP

    I owned one, too. Have to say that it was much easier and quicker to make a simple phone than nowadays with a Smartphone. Even my E72 needs a moment to load the address book. 7110 and the like were much faster. Also the “heads up” which we try to achieve with the latest UIs like Swipe did exist already to some degree earlier.

  • Edwin Adrianta

    I still own my Nokia 7110 and it’s still ON by now….

  • http://twitter.com/jGRite GhaV jGRite

    ….people forget where all they have now came from. I didn’t.

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  • Cycnus

    Nice ads, i can’t wait for Nokia world 2011.

  • Delajortiz

    What worries me a lot is the battery end of life…I still have may E90…

  • Delajortiz

    What worries me a lot is the battery end of life…I still have may E90…

  • Delajortiz

    What worries me a lot is the battery end of life…I still have may E90…

  • Delajortiz

    What worries me a lot is the battery end of life…I still have may E90…

  • John

    @Karen
    There is a mistake in the post. The phone is a Nokia N900 not a Nokia 900

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Thanks, John – fixed.

      • http://www.facebook.com/code565472 陳政文

        Please fix those “e”. It’s a problem since day one of Nokia Pure.

      • http://www.facebook.com/code565472 陳政文

        Please fix those “e”. It’s a problem since day one of Nokia Pure.

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Thanks, John – fixed.

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Thanks, John – fixed.

  • John

    The title is right but two instances in the post need the change:
    -1. after the weird brain image
    -2. right above a picture of you? with a headset on

  • John

    The title is right but two instances in the post need the change:
    -1. after the weird brain image
    -2. right above a picture of you? with a headset on

  • Anonymous

    This page is a total mess .  Why do I keep getting disqus comments from one article, under another…   ????

    Have your designer moneys run out of acid?? Please change the site back to what it was …functional and usable

    I choose the article about the new look, and i get comments for I’m guessing Brainscanner? or maybe Nokia world .. no clue ..but the comments made have nothing to do with the article on display.. 

    If you don’t know how to design a page, or how to code….why even attempt to do so.??  Why destroy something that actually worked?

  • Stevenhksar

    Where has the mobile site that can see comments of a post on Symbian Anna gone?

  • Anonymous

    Not sure what to make of the new design.  I find it cluttered and confusing and it looks terrible on my N8.  I suppose it’s more Windowsy to match Nokia’s new focus (colored rectangles, giant cropped text, background and foreground elements at the same value). How does it look on a WP7 phone (anyone)?

  • grayone7

    What an unadulterated mess. Childish ‘telly tubby’ approach and insultingly huge graphics and text ‘rob’ news and articles of any importance or interest they might have. I for one just do not want to look at any of it. Just been over to Beta Labs and (UGH!) they have suffered the same fate. One would have hoped that Nokia could salvage something of what used to be an intelligent identity and not succumb completely to the Microsoft madness. What about a separate Nokia Symbian site/s for those of us who do not want to wallow in the mire?

  • grayone7

    What an unadulterated mess. Childish ‘telly tubby’ approach and insultingly huge graphics and text ‘rob’ news and articles of any importance or interest they might have. I for one just do not want to look at any of it. Just been over to Beta Labs and (UGH!) they have suffered the same fate. One would have hoped that Nokia could salvage something of what used to be an intelligent identity and not succumb completely to the Microsoft madness. What about a separate Nokia Symbian site/s for those of us who do not want to wallow in the mire?

  • Anonymous

    How have all the comments that were made on this post ended up on the 7110 post instead today?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Teething troubles with Disqus. It’s sorted now.

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Teething troubles with Disqus. It’s sorted now.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, no it didn’t. Blogs are for reading. The WP7 tiles are not scannable. Pageloads are horrible. Bad first experience on a Metro style UI. If it’s like this, I think I’ll skip the Windows Phones…

  • Anonymous

    no mobile page anymore?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      We had to cut it out to maintain service during the massive traffic surge during Nokia World. Back soon.

  • Guest

    The new Conversation is very very bad for mobile viewing. Extremely graphics heavy, the [Sort stories by] pop up blocks my view on the Nokia browser (Symbian Anna). Apparently, you guys are not eating your own dogs food.

  • Macrorodent

    After a few days of  trying to live with the new design, I must say I don’t like it. Not one bit. Nice if your goal is to confuse people, not if you aim to communicate. The worst example: The square links in story collections (like “Staff picks” etc) contain heading text that instanly gets replaced by some picture _without_ the text when my mouse enters the square. That design is idiotic beyond words! It looks like the links are trying to hide from me, and I get the feeling i am forced to play some kind of whack-a-mole game. Please, I want to see the link I am clicking, when I am clicking it!

    Another issue is the font that looks terribly bad on most browsers I use,  which I already commented on in another thread (the one about the font designer).

    Please change the design to something sane. Otherwise I will just have to start avoiding this site, to avoid getting a migraine attack.

  • Anirut

    I do not like new & bad design of Nokia Conversations web. It hard to navigating & reading. You should take care about user & UX more than M$ Metro UI.

  • Mika

    I hate the new site. It is all very fancy with the tiles but horrible to find anything, the latest etc. All news seems to be hidden somewhere behind several clicks.

    Now I just follow RSS feed on my mobile.

  • http://vikas-patidar.myopenid.com/ Vikas Patidar

    very very bad and confusing, wasting of a lot of usable screen space usually you have been doing with Windows Phone devices too.

    Please listen for all the comments. Everyone is complaining about this ugly new interface.

    Hope you guys recover soon from this Metro phenomenon very soon.

  • Pat

    * ANTI-ergonomic “tiles-like” presentation to just present a LIST of articles and not a thema box = widget = “tiles”.
    * tiles-like presentation to show a list is ridiculous and a way to obliged people to be used to tiles. BUT when something is not praticle, Microsoft or anybody will not oblige me to like it ! Typical of the microsoft way to force people…
    * When I go to previous pages : the SAME articles are showed in a “tile-that-want-to-seem-different” : if I didn’t want to read the article a 1st time, why would I want to read it when it is showed again fasly-differently ? Typical of the microsoft way to abuse of people…
    * Not enough informations showed in tiles-like boxes, to have the desire of reading an article I need 500 character at least. SO I DON’T CLICK on these quite empty tiles-like…
    * VERY HEAVY PAGES 1 minute to charge one of them !!?? WTF !?? To many external spy links ?!

    What is praticle :
    a list of article 20 articles per page, no heavy UNUSEFUL big image, 500 characters about the article content

    I could laugh if it was not so dramatic.
    RIP Nokia.
    A psychopath has eloped from a psychiatric hospital.

  • APai

    sucks. why does this site hide all useful info. why do i have to roll over/ unhide information ? what a horrible way to display information! in an ideal world, I would love to get my information as quickly, as much as possible at a glance or within the next step. but , this is a unholy mess, I’m sorry, but it just makes me avoid this site altogether.

    was this a way to push the symbian fans and retain only the windows fans ? looks like it!

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