Articles tagged: design

1. 

   New Open Source Tools for Journalism Educators

   By Allison Lichter Joseph

   Posted on January 22, 2019

   Tools and resources, including a cool deck of cards, to teach journalism or just get yourself out of a rut.

2. 

   Meet Column Setter

   By Rob Weychert

   Posted on January 23, 2018

   A tool that enables rapid prototyping with squeaky-clean code—today we’re making it open source.

3. 

   Forms Matter

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on November 1, 2017

   Whether you’re filling out a form or building it yourself, you should be aware that decisions about how to design a form have all kinds of hidden consequences. How you ask a question, the order of questions, the wording and format of the questions, even whether a question is included at all—all affect the final result.

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   How (and Why) the Financial Times made The Uber Game

   By David Blood, Joanna S. Kao, Nicolai Knoll, Robin Kwong, Callum Locke, and Ændrew Rininsland

   Posted on October 25, 2017

   An experiment by the Financial Times led readers through the life of an Uber driver.

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   When The Designer Shows Up in the Design

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on April 4, 2017

   The unintended ways that assumptions, perspectives and biases find their way into our work as journalists, designers and developers. We’ll look at how the decisions we make—what data to base our stories on, what form those stories should take, how they’re designed, who they’re created for—always come out of our particular point of view.

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   Designing News Apps for Humanity

   By Thomas Wilburn

   Posted on September 26, 2016

   Reader trust is fragile and easily betrayed, and competition is fierce. Newsrooms can’t afford to ignore the way our work affects our readers when their contexts conflict with our expectations.

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   If It Needs a Sign, It’s Probably Bad Design

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on September 21, 2016

   Adding more text is a bad way to compensate for bad design.

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   Discrimination by Design

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on September 1, 2016

   Discriminatory design and decision-making affects all aspects of our lives: from the quality of our health care and education to where we live to what scientific questions we choose to ask. Here are just a few of the many tangible, visual examples that humans interact with every day.

9. 

   On Repeat

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on June 5, 2015

   GIFs and other looped images are mightier than journalists might imagine. Lena Groeger explains the legend, the myth, the GIF.

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    The Evolution of NPR’s Picture Stories

    By Wes Lindamood

    Posted on March 18, 2015

    How NPR’s picture stories have changed—and the design principles and iterative work behind all the changes.

11. 

    A Big Article About Wee Things

    By Lena Groeger

    Posted on September 25, 2014

    Lena Groeger on the magical powers of every little thing.

12. ProPublica’s News Apps Guides

    By Scott Klein

    Posted on February 28, 2013

    Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.