Sprint Review #4

Anne Zwaan, Javier Trujillo, Michelle Nagel, Nikki van Rosmalen

Digital Publishing Tools for Journalists

How can the future investigative journalist communicate a story more interactively, while at the same time better organize its

information, making sure the lifespan of a story increases?

Previously… on Publishing Tools..

Research Question

Previously… on Publishing Tools..

- Coding the dashboard

- Make it visually attractive

- Extend lifespan to long reads

- User testing with real journalists

Planned Goals for Sprint #4

- Coding the dashboard

- Make it visually attractive

- Extend lifespan to long reads

- User testing with real journalists

- Brainstorm Session with Creative Minds

- Creating new Prototypes

Goals for Sprint #4 after Ideation & Sprint Planning

User Stories Sprint #4

User Story #2: Feedback Persgroep

- Tool for the independent journalist.

- Expanding the lifespan is maybe more about testing & adjusting different things about the article so that it can circulate longer.

- Research how we can implement existing innovative techniques into our prototype.

User Story #1: Brainstorming

Goals of the Brainstorm Session

- Thinking of innovative technologies we can include in the dashboard:

“How do you see the future of journalism?”

User Story #1: Brainstorming - Conclusions

Six Categories:

1. Personalization

1. Collaboration

1. Engagement

1. Location

1. Lifespan

1. Algorithms

User Story #3: User Testing

- 2 journalists at AD - both male recipients

- 4 user tests at Usability LAB

- 2 female recipients - 2 male recipients

User Story #3: User Testing

Usability LAB

Usability LAB

Usability LAB

- Pinboard for organizing information - Tool for the freelance journalist

Strengths Recommendations

Statistics Journalists don’t always trust automatically created input

Personal Network Think about writing an article from scratch. How to import Word-documents?

Shout-outs Smart editor: recognize writer, layout etc.

User-friendly Editor Innovative techniques are scary!

User Story #3: User Testing - Conclusions

User Story #3: User Testing - Conclusions

User Story #4: Innovative Techniques

1. Sentiment Analysis 2. Automatically Tagging 3. Article Impact Prediction 4. Encrypted Messaging 5. Recommendation Systems 6. Content Extractor 7. Annotations / co-creating 8. Geo-tagging 9. Smart Editor

User Story #4: Sentiment Analysis

User Story #4: Title Improvement

User Story #4: Automatically Tagging

Sentiment Analysis

Smart Editor

Smart Editor

Geo-tagging

Co-creating

Adapted Wireframes

Adapted Wireframes

User Story #6: Lifespan

- Sprint turned out to be too short (7 days) for this US - Main focus: Organizing information instead of lifespan

- Innovative techniques (modules) could be about extending the

lifespan

Next time.. on Publishing Tools

- Coding the dashboard - Make it visually attractive

- Insert small prototypes / modules

Feedback/Questions?