Background - The Telegraph - Studio Brief 02 - OUGD503

The Telegraph, a broadsheet newspaper which is produced and distributed around the U.K. and also intentionally has been running since 1855. It is known as one of the heavy-weights of media and news distribution and has a circulation of slightly less than 400,000.

The political stance of The Telegraph is generally considered as right-wing conservative and has been dubbed as The Torygraph By the Private Eye.


Their current online platform is shown below:

(Home Page, viewed full screen on 1080p display)

(Article linked from home page)

It has been made clear above that the Telegraph site is lacking in Adaptive view mode. Currently, the Responsive code is used to display the web pages, this is becoming more and more outdated by the day. It is obvious that with the rise of high res displays, the need for an adaptive website is more crucial than ever. Even on a 1920x1080 display which isn't necessarily large in today's standards, the website only takes up a small portion of the screen.

The mobile app is similar to the desktop site. It has lots of content presented in a very 'conservative'  way. It seems to take too much inspiration from its desktop counterpart, if it were to be more friendly to use in terms of aesthetic attractiveness that most mobile apps are able to utilise due to it being touch screen and more interactive.

The mobile app, whilst a huge improvement on the desktop variation still fails to engage the user the best it can. This is down to the fact the user has no way of connecting all of their devices to communicate with each other.