Portfolio Description

Q1 / 2021

Scheduled Activity

Personas Level 01

Persona Documentation for 5 sites based on behavior and qualitative and quantitive analytics

Platform Evaluation

Industry landscape

Group alignment

Understanding what design research does

Video Player Features

How users prioritize various video features

APRIL 2021

Scheduled Tests for the Month

Secure Testing Platform

Formalized relationship with vendor

Comment Tool

Resource for collecting customer comments from app stores

Understanding Weather

User expectations around weather experiences

MAY 2021

Scheduled Tests

Streaming OTT Insights

User expectations around streaming services and interface presentation

Modernization Desktop Homepage

Existing vs New - homepage template on desktop

JUNE - JULY 2021

Scheduled Tests

Modernization Mobile Homepage ⇆ Story page

Users perceptions interacting with clickable content

Modernization Desktop Homepage ⇆ Story page

Users perceptions interacting with clickable content

Persona Level 02

Qualitative, location based, localized content

AUG 2021

Scheduled Tests

NewsNation Now

Insights across Native App, Website on Mobile, and Website on Computer

NewsNation Concept Development

Rapid Iterative Prototyping & Testing of New Conceptual Directions

ON DECK

Ranked Backlog

Email Newsletter Study 01

Subscribe and Unsubscribe processes as well as Receiving and Opening newsletters

Email Newsletter Study 02

Examine the role of email newsletters in subscribers’ daily lives over a 2-4 week period

Email Newsletter Study 03

Focus on how people read, or mainly scan, email inboxes and newsletter content

Email Newsletter Study 04

In-depth research with participants reading email newsletters on their mobile devices

Social Referral Traffic

Uncovering insights into traffic originating from social platforms

My Neighborhood

Uncovering insights around the relationship my neighborhood has on my local news consumption

Timely Lists

Investigate interface techniques for the display of Thumbnail, Title Text, Excerpt, within the context of lists

Internal Development Score Cards

The development and training of a suite of tools for polling and surveying our internal customers throughout our development processes

Stream Hub

Investigate a Re-imagined top level category page template and video player experience optimized for the consumption of live stream video content

Video Hub

Investigate the desirability of a video-on-demand (VOD) experience centered on showcasing our archive of video content

Video Ads

Investigate alternative techniques in the display and frequency of displaying ads within a video experience

Device Specific Player

Investigate the nuances in behavior while consuming video between mobile, computer, tablet and tv