I led UX and visual design of the development of a news app, for a news business which hadn't previously released apps.

I had a great deal of research, data and insights to begin with as the product had an enormous existing user base, and I led a huge design discovery process to ensure we built the best solutions for every user journey, eg. onboarding, search, receiving notifications, etc.

The audience for news is enormous and varied, and I loved the challenge of designing for all of these users.

Team: Myself on UX and Visual Design, 2 x producers, 6 x developers.

I performed lots of UX exercises and created valuable tools to ensure my designs would be user-focused:

+  Personas

+  User Flows

+  Storyboards

+  Initial design sketches

Designing a new product for such a big existing user base is a big daunting project, therefore I decided to follow atomic design principles, breaking elements into smaller and smaller particles, and delivering small parts of the product in fortnightly sprints.

Design tools used:

+  Sketch

+  Framer.js

+  Flinto

+  Axure

+  Pixate

+  After Effects

When I started creating mockups, I generally designed iOS and Android side by side to match functionality and quickly pass mocks on to development.

I worked with the developers to establish their requirements of design deliverables, and I passed on comprehensive documentation to them:

+  Wireframes with annotations

+  Visual mockups with guides

+  Style Guide

+  Documentation of everything in Confluence