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The New Racked

by Courtney Leonard and boheekim

Aligning research and design with a new editorial strategy

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An open source tool for enabling faster, easier editing of video interviews

by pietro.passarelli

We’ve taken a process that was once days or weeks of work, and shortened it to just a few hours. With a Mac OS X desktop app that creates automatic transcription from a video or audio file. The user can make text selections and export those...

Verge 3.0: Logo recognition and refinement

by shawnmoriarty, Georgia Cowley, Courtney Leonard, Lauren Rabaino, boheekim, vware, and Warren Schultheis

Part two of a four-part series

Verge 3.0: How we conducted research

by Courtney Leonard, boheekim, Lauren Rabaino, Georgia Cowley, Warren Schultheis, vware, and shawnmoriarty

Part one of a four-part series

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Designing Pixel Punch 3.0

by DBalenson and jessicapaoli

From Cleveland, to Brooklyn, to Chicago, to Washington D.C.

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“Africa is not a country, ” and other notes from Media Party Africa

by Kainaz Amaria

Omar A. Mohammed, journalist and current International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) fellow, took the stage to share how communities in Africa were using WhatsApp as it relates to news. “That’s data from Tanzania,” he said, standing in front of a...

Creating a pop-up restaurant brand from scratch

by Carrie Ruby

Eater recently partnered with The Museum of Food and Drink and Infiniti to create a pop-up restaurant called Fusco. Chef Scott Conant hosted an immersive multi-course dinner over three days in San Francisco that revolved around new interpretations...

Join The First Edition of Color Coded

by pamyam

Empowering People of Color

3 ways Special Olympics helps me be a better designer

by Tyson Whiting

My older sister was born with Down Syndrome, so I have coached and volunteered with Frederick, Maryland’s Special Olympics program my whole life. Until recently I had never thought about what volunteering teaches me, and how it affects my life,...

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Creating a design system for collaboration

by Kelsey Scherer

The stories we create live in many forms beyond just our websites. Audiences experience our brands at various touch points, and we strive to meet them where they are. Because of this, designing a story is more than laying out a responsive web...

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Content is part of your experience, and other lessons from user testing

by Kelsey Scherer

On the Storytelling Studio, we constantly iterate on process as its relates to both how we work and what we work on. This includes figuring out the most effective way to test usability of our projects. For our most recent collaboration, Curbed’s 1...

You’re invited to Pixel Punch 2016

by jessicapaoli and DBalenson

Apply today to be a contestant or judge at our annual design battle

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An invisible interface: 6 things we learned from designing for voice

by ssktanaka

How to design for an interface you can't see

TechGirls visit Vox Media

by Ramla

Vox Product recently hosted a group of four teenage girls from Algeria, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco for a day of job shadowing and workshops. They are part of an initiative called TechGirls – an international exchange program led by the State...

What we learned: A retrospective by Vox Media’s 2016 summer intern class

by anna brown, kaitlingu, jonathan.moss, swapnilk, noelleingrisano, Ali Sidiki, and Ryan Connors

This summer, interns from SB Nation, Eater, and Vox Product came together to create Powering the Olympics, an in-depth feature that explored how athletes, restaurants, and the city of Rio De Janeiro are preparing for the games. The interns had the...

Making intrinsic ratio elements with a max height

by Guillermo Esteves

Here's something that took me longer than I care to admit to figure out how to do. I have a photoblog where I post the photos I take; I like to display them at high resolution, but when they're in a portrait orientation (like this one), you...

How I got started contributing to Rails

by jonathan.moss

Open source is driven by a dedicated team of volunteers. Let’s learn more about the process from a Rails Issues Team member!

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The importance of design research and moodboarding in storytelling

by Brittany Holloway-Brown

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...

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Behind the scenes of the Hillary Clinton interview

by Lauren Rabaino, Kainaz Amaria, ssktanaka, and Katie O'Dowd

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...

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Behind the scenes of Racked's 'Reign, Supreme' story

by Brittany Holloway-Brown, Tyson Whiting, and Aidan Feay

How do you explain a story in 15 different parts?

Open sourcing our accessibility guidelines

by Kelsey Scherer, ally palanzi, Winston Hearn, and ssktanaka

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

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Vox Product's Kit & Caboodle, June 2016

by katharine.molloy

A monthly collection of design work from the Product Team at Vox Media

Meet our Summer 2016 intern class

by kaitlingu

Meet Vox Media's Summer 2016 intern class

Transitioning into design management: 6 lessons learned

by Alisha Ramos

I first joined Vox Media as a Front-End Designer coding and designing various apps, platforms, and editorial projects. As of March, I’m now a Design Director. Here are some lessons I’ve learned in my first three months of transitioning from being...

Reducing the start render time on Chorus

by iamcarrico

In May, we deployed a change that decreased our start render time immensely. This is how we found, built, tested, and deployed the code that did it.

Remote User Testing at Vox

by Gregg Bernstein

I recently joined Vox Media as Senior User Researcher, where I work remotely with a distributed team that relies heavily on asynchronous communication. As the sole researcher, my tasks run the research gamut—from interviews and user tests to...

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AMP, Instant Articles, and Vox Media, explained

by Elite Truong

It’s been a few months since we launched three of our brands – SB Nation, The Verge, and Vox.com – on the AMP format in partnership with Google and a number of other publishers and technology companies, including Twitter. This is really exciting...

Accessibility matters—and here's what we're doing about it

by ssktanaka, Winston Hearn, and Kelsey Scherer

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. And we want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

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Behind the scenes: Recode design process

by Courtney Leonard

We just re-launched Recode, our tech/business news and analysis brand. For our Brand Identity team, this marked a different type of redesign. Not only did we have to look at the site and all social platforms, but we had to imagine the brand in a...

Bots for discovering related content

by Elena Zheleva and Yian Shang

A Slackbot powered by a neural network

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How designers can use unit testing to build resilient and happy design systems

by Alisha Ramos

Adapting a method from programming for product design

Themes from #Clarity2016

by Kelsey Scherer, ally palanzi, and ngansense

Last week, ten Vox Product members met in San Francisco to attend Clarity, a conference about style guides and design systems. As a growing company, this is something that we (like everyone!) are struggling with internally and trying improve on. F...

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Steal My Tool @ NICAR

by Ryan Mark

News nerds show off eight open source tools for stealing

Voxmedia.com is now live on Chorus!

by Chris Haines

Two weeks ago, we wrote about launching Curbed on Chorus and the Unison project that led up to it. So we built a more unified, highly-customizable Chorus, with a flexible set of design components that can scale for many different types of...

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