Product
Designing More Emotionally Intelligent Digital Experiences
- Anjali Mullany
A range of companies — from social networking startups to media organizations to tech titans like Facebook — have been boldly experimenting to allow audiences to express their...
Fitting in the News: Creating Personalized Interactives
- Jere Hester
- Sandeep Junnarkar
- Kristen Lee
It’s a developing art: creating mobile-friendly news interactives that deliver personalized info to users — often on complex issues — by guiding them through a series of...
Getting into the Weed: Launching a Successful Niche Digital Media Product
- Ricardo Baca
- Sarah Frank
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Moderated by Nushin Rashidian
Journalism covering cannabis has moved well beyond close-up photos of strains in magazine centerfolds. A community that is millions strong is engaging with weed news on plenty of...
It’s Not Mobile First. Think Content First.
- Sarah Squire
- Allison Morrow
Designers and developers have been talking about mobile first for a few years now, but it’s time to pivot. What are we trying to say, and what do we want our audience to take...
Product-ify Your Newsroom: Innovate with Product Thinking
- Katharine Bailey
- Greg Emerson
- Hailey Persinger
Even without a product team, a dedicated manager or journalist can mobilize the resources to incite change in the newsroom and its products. Our team of presenters will examine...
Storytelling from the Smartphone Lock Screen
- Eric Bishop
- Adam Pasick
- Madeline Welsh
The Quartz app was only a few days old when it sent a push alert that gave us all goosebumps: Author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if...
Tools v. Snowflakes
- Chris Amico
- Priya Krishnakumar
If you build interactive news applications or graphics, you likely agonize over this question: “Can I reuse this, or is this a one-off?” If reusable, what uses cases will it...
2015 Lightning Talks
ONA hosted another round of community-pitched lightning talks, wherein we ask speakers to present a big idea, but keep it short and sweet — five minutes, to be exact. Arielle...
5 Ways Design Can Make Your Newsroom Better
- Heather Chaplin
- Shazna Nessa
Seasoned designers know that the best design is the design you don’t see. This goes well beyond what things look like, such as an information graphic or the interface of a news...