In 2016 I oversaw the development of a proof-of-concept version of The Washington Post’s mobile website built on Google’s new Progressive Web App (PWA) technology. It was demoed at Google I/O that year. Even though it was a public beta we did not advertise it at all. Still, it suddenly had more than 50,000 users …
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Apple News Enterprise Stories
Apple News has been a great platform for new readers but with any distributed partner we are limited in how we present our most compelling stories. In early discussions with Apple I pushed the News leadership team to build upon the reputation of Apple’s excellence in design. I wanted us to be able to bring …
Project Rainbow
The first product my colleagues and I developed with Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos in 2013. The goal of the experience was to reduce cognitive overhead. The reader isn’t presented with a traditional list of headlines but instead is placed right at the first top story to begin browsing. The Washington Post National Tablet Edition …
Project Refresh: WashingtonPost.com Redesign
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. Working on …
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Washington Post Augmented Reality Stories
We were one of the first news publishers to regularly release augmented reality stories at scale through our native iOS app. There is a dedicated section for augmented reality as well. I oversaw the initial development and strategy of our AR stories working in collaboration with our native app engineering team and the newsroom including …
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