design: storytelling, strategy, collaboration
Latest work: Using design and data visualization for explaining
Latest work: Redefining accessible design
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This ground-breaking project empowers disabled people in the developing world tell their own stories by giving the equipment and training to shoot documentaries about their lives. Accessibility was our guiding principle from the first prototypes to the final site. An innovative settings bar allows users to customize their experience, descriptive transcripts and other features invite every user to explore.
Team: Jody Santos (founder and editor), Eric Bailey (development) |
Latest work: Race and resistance for Nieman Reports magazine
Latest work: Explaining AI
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How does your phone know what word you’re about to text? How does Spotify know what song you want to hear? How does facial recognition software mimic our brains? I worked with a team of editors, researchers, and developers to build a an accessible, game-like interface to explain artificial intelligence. Team: Jackie Snow (reporting),Yan Wu (development). |
Latest work: The Immigrant Experience
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I created an interactive showing the journeys of immigrants from eight countries and eras. Users confront the tough choices immigrants faced as laws and attitudes change and can see the consequences of choosing different paths.
Team: Grainne McEvoy (research),Yan Wu (development), Joel Kimmel (illustration). |
Experience, an immersive digital magazine
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I helped launch a digital magazine about the transformative power of experience. I collaborated on content strategy, and directed design, and development. The challenge: how to put users into the lives of others. The solution: an immersive approach using vivid photography and illustration, motion, virtual reality, and welcoming reading environment. Team: Joanna Weiss (editorial partner), Elaina Natario (design, development) |
Reading the audience that reads you
As creative director of The Boston Globe and BostonGlobe.com, I led the print, digital, news development, and infographics teams, building an award-winning visual brand that evolved with the changing media landscape. The Society for News Design named BostonGlobe.com “The World's Best Designed News Site” at launch in 2012. Pulling that off required more than good design and hard work by my team — we reached across the organization to build a culture of innovation, experimentation, reflection, and engagement with our audience.
Team for BG.com design: Upstatement, Filament Group, Ethan Marcotte, Miranda Mulligan
Team for BG.com design: Upstatement, Filament Group, Ethan Marcotte, Miranda Mulligan
Call to action
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I led a team of designers and developers that built a powerful response to mass shootings. We worked with editors to shape stories and created infographics that explained the political and economic forces that have prevented meaningful reform. We developed a social media strategy that gave users a way to take action. The project took about a week from conception to launch.
Team: Dan Zedek, Michael Workman, Heather Hopp-Bruce, Elaina Natario, Russell Goldenberg, Gabriel Florit, David Butler
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Telling a story about smell and taste — using sight, touch, and sound
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We broke apart traditional story forms, using a quiet but innovative approach that complemented the tone of this piece about an elderly man who bakes and sends a challah bread loaf to his grown children each week.
Team: Scott LaPierre, Michael Workman, Elaina Natario, Russell Goldenberg
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Style meets substance
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I designed a number of issues on education, here using conceptual photo illustration for a cover story on standardized testing.
For an investigative cover story on colleges preying on working class students and saddling them with overwhelming debt, we built an interactive that let users explore the scope of the problem and focus in on particular schools. Team: Dan Zedek and Russell Goldenberg.
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Redesigned, reimagined, reinvigorated
A new perspective, a new focus, a new voice: successful redesigns are always driven by a fresh look at content and audience.
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For Score, a new Monday football section, we turned things around to view the game from the fan's perspective. The result: stronger voices, more analysis, a look at the best tailgate parties, a dive into fantasy football, and a double-wide photo poster every week.
Team: Dan Zedek, Joe Moore
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Capital, a new section on politics, gave readers a colorful, irreverent, behind-the-scenes peek at the issues and personalities in the news. And to anchor it, we went deep with data: analyzing social media data for a look at the people moving the needle, polls, and the numbers behind the news.
Team: Dan Zedek, Kim Maxwell Vu, Chiqui Esteban
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What’s the big idea?
The Globe’s Ideas section has a smart surprising take on the world that’s matched by conceptual design with a twist – and often leavened with a dose of humor.
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Exploring boredom, the least studied aspect of human psychology
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Why we may be missing the next bubble
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In praise of pork barrel spending
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Why some states welcome, and others shun, immigrants
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Ten architects and planners reinvent the city
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If you need to change an entire culture, don't be too idealistic about human nature
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The biggest stories
When the big stories happen — the ones that change and shape us — a visual journalist’s responsibility is to get it right and create work that feels as big as the event. From 9/11 to presidential elections, to the Boston Marathon bombing (read about how we covered this), to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to numerous sports team championships, I worked collaboratively with reporters, photographers, and infographics artists to to capture the decisive moments and go deeper to explain what they meant.
Arts and culture
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The ups and downs of a comic, told infographic-style
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A larger-than-life figure in classical music departs
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Slightly. Off. Balance.
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