![](http://joseph-jam.es/beta/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Washington-Post-Homepage-1024x664.png)
The Refresh project started as a subtle facelift of The Washington Post’s website in 2014. It all started with article pages for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. As a product design team we were frustrated that something as simple as Olympics pages with the same information everyone else has was so hard to create.
![Washington Post Olympics Section Front 2014](http://joseph-jam.es/beta/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joey-Marburger-Chief-Innovation-Officer-Summit-NYC-Dec-7-FINAL.007-1024x576.jpeg)
Working on collaboration with our engineering team, specifically Greg Franczyk who no longer works at The Post, we tested a new tool he was developing called PageBuilder. This was the very first tool that now serves as a cornerstone of our software as a service business, Arc.
![Washington Post Olympics Article Page v1](http://joseph-jam.es/beta/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joey-Marburger-Chief-Innovation-Officer-Summit-NYC-Dec-7-FINAL.011-1024x576.jpeg)
![Sochi Olympics 2014 Article Page Today](http://joseph-jam.es/beta/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joey-Marburger-Chief-Innovation-Officer-Summit-NYC-Dec-7-FINAL.014-1024x576.jpeg)
Washington Post Press Release announcing the Refresh from June 2014 can be read here.
The original Refresh article page in our current template can be found here for comparison.