SND Makes Comes to Indianapolis
The Society for News Design just released the list of professionals and students participating in the upcoming story form prototyping event in Indianapolis.
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Team Yellow Puts Finishing Touches On Backstory
Team Yellow put as many finishing touches as possible on their project, Backstory, as the 11 a.m. deadline approached. Not only did the team need to complete the project, but they also had to prepare a presentation.
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How we designed the app: lots of hard work and team effort
Team Yellow’s Matt Gelfand, Joyce Rice and Ben Running have continued iterations of Backstory pages. Scores of screens were designed in an effort to enhance but simplify user experience. As the team discoverd new solutions they shared ideas with Mike Swartz to see how the designs would function in code.
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Choosing the colors and design for Backstory with Will Royal
A design project wouldn’t be complete without some kind of technological failure. After redownloading and reinstalling Adobe Creative Suite, Team Yellow’s Will Royal put together a basic style guide. Ben Running provided some research on existing app colors, and Royal used this as inspiration for Backstory’s color pallete.
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Jay Z makes the code come quicker, faster, harder, stronger
Team Yellow was excited to see the progress made with the prototype. Mike Swartz worked quickly to incorporate the team’s design in the function of the product and took to Twitter to explain what fueled him through the project. “JayZ makes the code come quicker,” Swartz tweeted. Images of the rap mogul were used often in the prototype of the team’s project now called Backstory.
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Building a creative team with awesome people from all over
With varying skills and levels of experience, Team Yellow decided that a division of labor would be the most efficient way to proceed. Ben Running and Joyce Rice worked on iterations of the article page while Matt Gelfand looked at how the home screen would function. Will Royal put together samples for branding and Mike Swartz started coding for the whole project. Team members continued to communicate with one another as the project took form.
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Day 1 Report Backs: We have ideas and some fun has happened
Once all teams consolidated their ideas into a single question or problem, the groups presented to one another. Each team described their project in less than five minutes and then received feedback from the rest of the group.
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Deciding on an issue: Let's try to explain the backstory
Team Yellow decided to tackle the issue of varying reader familiarity. Team captain Mike Swartz joined Matt Gelfand, Ben Running, Joyce Rice and Will Royal.
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Brainstorming and capturing ideas in paper and sticky notes
A room full of individual makers quickly transformed into a hub of teamwork after lunch. These teams, Yellow, Blue, Pink and Green, huddled to discuss which questions they were interested in answering. Teams had plenty of ideas to sift through. The broad ideas posed in the large group discussion propelled small teams of five to seven members to dive in to an issue in digital design.
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Group Discussion: Lets try to figure out what we're working on
Discussions started to get at the heart of digital news when participants pose questions in a large group session. Questions were formatted as “How might we…” and then added to with more detail or related topics.
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Turn off your phones, nerds!
Device use was temporarily banned at the #SNDmakes prototyping event. Event organizer Miranda Mulligan wants attendees to “be present” for introductions, so she has temporarily prohibited use of technological devices such as phones and computers.