Brief
Modernizing design and enhancing personalized experience with AI technology integration.
Section 1 - Live Coverage
Project Overview
Project Goal
Transform the mobile Live Feed into a clear, organized experience that makes our most important analysis easy to find, ensuring busy users quickly get the insights that matter most.
Solution
Transform the Live Coverage experiences into an Intelligent Narrative Dashboard, leveraging visual hierarchy to guarantee our flagship analysis is instantly discovered and consumed, positioning WSJ as the essential source for high-value, real-time intelligence.
My Role
Lead Product Designer
Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Flows, Rapid Prototyping.
Team
WSJ Design Team
Timeline
Otc. 2025 - Ongoing
Under Development
Protype
WSJ APP
I developed this advanced ProtoPie prototype for our new app redesign to allow for realistic user testing, as its interactivity mirrors the final application.
Protype
Live Widgets
CHALLENGE
Live Coverage
What's wrong?
Live Coverage is the cornerstone of real-time reporting for the Wall Street Journal. However, the current Live Coverage experience is burdened with visual inconsistencies, and limited options for deeper user engagement.
The Live Coverage needs significant functional and visual remediation.
FOR MVP
New Live Coverage
The new live coverage should be intuitive, interactive, and optimized for user engagement, providing a seamless experience that keeps users informed, encourages exploration, and highlights key updates in real time.
Project Goal
This project introduces a new media player control system designed to deliver a clean, seamless, and consistent video experience across our global platforms, enabling users to effortlessly discover, explore, and immerse themselves in video content.
Solution
A new inline player aims to reduce visual noise and enhance usability, creating a more immersive and focused video experience for users.
My Role
Lead Product Designer
Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Flows, Rapid Prototyping.
Team
WSJ Design Team
Timeline
Otc. 2025 - Ongoing
Under Development
Protype
Video Player
CHALLENGE
Video Experience
How might we improve the video player to address its usability challenges and create a smoother, more engaging viewing experience in the mobile app?
What's wrong?
The native media player covers most content also requires multiple taps for full-screen and play/pause, has hard-to-reach icons, and offers limited interactions for the inline video experience.
The current video experience needs major functional and visual enhancements to meet user expectations.
FOR MVP
New Video Experience
A new inline player experiences to reduces visual noise and enhances usability, creating a more immersive and focused video experience for users.
Project Goal
Build engaging market data on the NextGen platform to serve the investor audience by improving the table stakes data rendering, creating engaging experiences that connect news and data, and building the platform for growth.
Solution
Leverage market data to engage the investor audience using the app, while developing the platform for future feature growth and cross-brand adoption. Data display and rendering will align with other platform initiatives for scale, including the shared data layer and new chart provider.
My Role
Lead Product Designer
Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Flows, Rapid Prototyping.
Team
WSJ Design Team
Timeline
Otc. 2025 - Ongoing
Under Development
Protype
Market Page
CHALLENGE
Market Data
How might we better connect our market data with relevant news context to provide deeper insights and increase user engagement on the market page?
What's wrong?
The market page currently displays only basic stock information, lacks the interactions needed to create an engaging user experience, and fails to showcase the full value of our rich market data.
The Market page needs significant functional and visual remediation.
FOR MVP
New Market Page
A new inline player experiences to reduces visual noise and enhances usability, creating a more immersive and focused video experience for users.
