Improving Media Experience

Navigation, Presentation, Design

What’s the problem?

Why does it matter?

• News is important!

• Newspapers are dying

• If you can’t get through information, you can’t absorb it

• Increasingly tough competition on the internet

Project Goals

• Indicate article length and set experience expectations

• E!ectively associate between related articles and media

• Optimally incorporate related and complementary multimedia pieces

• Remove excess data and distractions

• Track individual preference/history

Who’s working on it?

• Industry people:

• NewsPageDesigners " http://npd.snd.org/

• e.g. Jacet Utko " http://www.utko.com/

• Researchers:

• Usability experts

• Designers

• Data Visualization experts

Project Phases

• Research

• Design/Storyboarding

• Implementation into prototype

• User testing

• Final prototype

Challenges

• Finding reliable research

• Accessing information

• Technological limitations

• Lack of results clarity