A complete redesign of a complete newsroom CMS.
During my time at Gannett I led a complete redesign of Presto, the organization’s custom CMS. In addition to this overhaul, I designed new features to further extend Presto’s comprehensive feature set in support of the shifting needs of the present and future newsroom.
Presto powers over 100 news sites visited by more than 100 million readers per month. Sites range in size from small local news operations to the large national footprint of USA TODAY, and Presto needs to work for all of them. Presto enables cooperation, coordination, and content adaptation across the entire USA TODAY NETWORK.
Contributions
User research
Concept ideation
Personas
Branding
Prototyping
Usability testing
Iterative design
Style guide
SASS
Presto's planning tool connects local to national and national to local, enabling the USA TODAY NETWORK to fulfill it's unique potential.
The alerts tool empowers editors to centrally schedule and send alerts and notifications across a variety of platforms.
A long-term commitment.
I was hired at the start of a full redesign and re-platforming of an existing custom CMS. My task? Design anything and everything in the extensive suite of tools that had been developed over the years. Improving usability, visual consistency, and aesthetic appeal were a natural part of the work.
With my constant stewardship, Presto Next was a huge step up from its predecessor, greatly increasing user satisfaction and newsroom efficiency.
The flow for "Best Crop," a cross-team solution to a longstanding problem for the newsroom.
Untangling complexity.
A unique opportunity for Gannett is the size of the USA TODAY Network. No other news organization can recontextualize reporting from in-house national journalists at USA TODAY to a local audience while also empowering a network of 200+ local newspapers to act as an internal wire service.
With feet on the ground across the country, in markets large and small, the USA TODAY Network presents massive opportunity along with challenging complexity. Presto Next is the connective tissue between local newspapers and USA TODAY, and I worked to improve that connection with every project.
A modular image uploader that enabled a shared interface across touchpoints.
The story editor is one of the most important complicated parts of a newsroom's tooling.
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