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An invisible interface: 6 things we learned from designing for voice
How to design for an interface you can't see
Vox Trump Tax: People take screenshots. Design for that.
When Vox’s team set out to build an election forecast, their model predicted a Republican win. They had built a “fundamental model”: a model that relies on things like the state of the economy, the president’s approval rating, and more. Once you...
Fighting meeting burnout
One-hour meeting. 30-minute meeting. 30-minute meeting. 30-minute break. One-hour meeting. Sound familiar? A recurring theme in Storytelling Studio retrospectives is the challenge of multiple meetings and constant context-switching between...
The importance of design research and moodboarding in storytelling
For the Storytelling Studio, research is just as important as execution. We stress knowing why we make decisions before we even begin to think about how we’d execute them. Part of our ethos is getting to the heart of the story. Before starting...
Blogging about blogging: Storytelling Studio guidelines for what we share
We made a promise when we launched the Storytelling Studio that we would be educators. As such, these are our guiding principles for what makes for a good blog post for our Storytelling blog. The audience for this guide is primarily our own...
On building a culture of documentation
When your team is remote, distributed, highly collaborative, and fast-paced, having solid documentation is core to effectiveness. Before we were the Storytelling Studio, our teams who did this kind of work developed a system for building...
Behind the scenes of the Hillary Clinton interview
We got a phone call on the evening of June 20 letting us know that Ezra Klein had landed a 40-minute interview with Hillary Clinton and that our design director, Kainaz Amaria, would be flying out to make photos. We took a deep breath and set a...
