Category Archives: Portfolio

The Washington Post’s PWA site vs mobile web. 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. […]

“Tampa Bay’s coming storm” on Apple News. 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 […]

The Washington Post Fire Tablet App highlighting what we called Pinch View to quickly browser stories. 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 […]

The current Washington Post Homepage following multiple iterations from the initial launch of the Refresh project in 2015. 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 […]

The Washington Post AR experience on iPhone. (Credit: The Washington Post) 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 […]