News Portal Südostschweiz
We were commissioned by SOMEDIA Press AG to support the redesign of the news platform südostschweiz.ch in-house with their team regarding conception and UX design.
Collaboration
Karin was at SOMEDIA Media in Chur on site and has integrated into their web team as a team member. In close cooperation with the news publishers and with a focus on user experience design, workshops were conducted and as a result various concept design iterations were developed.
Design process
Procedure
Desktop first, mobile in mind: The main goal of the news platform was to guide existing newspaper subscribers and e-paper readers to the new online portal. The focus on desktop was very important in order to bring subscribers’ newspaper reading habits, whether with a paper newspaper or an e-paper, as close as possible to the online platform. This means that initial concepts were developed primarily for the desktop view, but the mobile version was always present.
Event-driven homepage: The new concept includes various layout templates for the homepage so that editors can design and place articles according to the “mood of the day”. Today, the layout of the various article teasers on the home page is created according to the event of the day and its importance. Karin was on site at SOMEDIA’s media center in Chur and has integrated herself into the online portal’s web team as a team member. In close cooperation with the editors and with a focus on user experience design, workshops were held on site and various concept/design iterations were developed as a result.
A major challenge was to work out the hierarchy of the templates (article teasers), which is determined by the size of the article teasers, for small screen sizes.
The news platform is constantly changing, which is why we continue to support the Somedia team. We are currently working on the user guidance of the subscription store and the revision of the navigation concept.
Type
News portal
Client
SOMEDIA Press AG
Services
Konzept & UX Design
Website
Period
Since 2016
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