November Meetup — NPR's David Wright: Design Is How It Works

“It’s not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs.

Come hear David Wright, the digital design director for NPR, talk about designing the storytelling experience. Here's the description of the talk, a hit at this year's annual ONA conference in San Francisco:

Companies like Apple and IDEO have demonstrated the role that design thinking plays in the creation of revolutionary, game-changing products. Yet even in 2012, news design is experiencing a great stagnation: too often, our products and platforms feel more like 2006. Learn strategies to show how design thinking can actually create efficiencies in a product development process that will always be strapped for time.

Schedule:

6:30—7 p.m.

Drinks, snacks and mingling.

7—7:45 p.m.

Design Is How It Works presentation by David Wright (in the newsroom for maximum capacity)

7:45—8:30 p.m.

Networking and more drinks.

We hope you will come to Medill for what promises to be a cool meetup. The $5 entry fee covers your drinks and food.

See you in November!

— Tiffany and Matt

WANT TO HELP?

Volunteer to work the door, photograph or blog the event by emailing Tiffany and Matt.

Have an idea for future ONADC topics, speakers and events? Let us know!

RESOURCES

Interactive projects to look at on your mobile device:

Lost and Found (http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2012/cushman/), NPR’s The Picture Show Pitchfork feature (http://pitchfork.com/artists/702-cat-power/) on Cat Power USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/) website and mobile app redesign Recommended reading:

A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/) The Society for News Design’s Tangents (http://pinboard.in/u:tysone/t:forsnd/) Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte Works by web designers Anthony Zeldman (http://www.zeldman.com/), Jeff Croft (http://jeffcroft.com/)and Alexander Shaw (http://shhhaw.com/) Where to get started designing for mobile platforms:

Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) by Twitter Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/) by ZURB