Newsroom planning transformation at The Washington Post.
Spaces are customizable to fit the project and team.
List and column views have detail options to suit every need.
A three pillar vision.
The product development of Spaces was unprecented at The Washington Post: a designer (that's me) laid out a comprehensive vision for how planning could work at the Post, earned buy-in from stakeholders across the organization, and led the product's direction from inception to its successful release.
The three pillars that form the foundation of that vision are Ideas, Spaces, and People. Each pillar is both an organizing concept and a modular component to build a the Post's new planning tool around.
A complex prototype used to build buy-in with the newsroom while validating the product direction.
Flexible, powerful, and scalable.
Spaces is truly what those in the news media business call a “universal budget,” and also so much more. It's a shared calendar for the whole organization, a freeform planning space for every new initiative, and a daily source of truth for each team and project.
Having the Spaces product vision from its inception in a quick Google doc to its full release to the newsroom, I continue to guide Spaces feature development with a healthy backlog of concepts that fit seamlessly together, and a capacity to rapidly pivot in reaction to live user needs.
Spaces as a live product is just get started, and the future for newsroom planning at the Post is brighter than ever.
A multiday view is coming soon.
The first wireframes were mobile first.
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