Just provide the reviewed title at the top of the page – The Times Literary Supplement Review

To view the title of the work being reviewed requires an extra click, which opens a overlay masking the review. It is a remarkably stupid interface for a periodical/app that is devoted to book reviews. I’m not crazy about the revision to the print versions layout, but it is more useful than this bad design. Why is an icon of a picture frame part of the UX? What did the designers think that means to a reader? The logic of the most basic aspects of the app’s design suggest that no one involved had ever read an issue of TLS, which is probably the case. You do need to login every couple of weeks, which is annoying. Also, the login is unconventional, requiring an account number, but not the account password. I suspect this underlies many of the complaints in the other reviews. The LRB app is faultless in comparison, although it is pretty basic. TLS should study the competition, as it is. I cannot speak more highly of the archive access, through Gale Research, but this is a subscription benefit unrelated to this awkward app.
Review by Bill O'Basket on The Times Literary Supplement.

All The Times Literary Supplement Reviews


Other Reviews

Fix it
RobertCambridge

Why?
Touristan

Needs fixing
Paul Bove