Jeremy Gilbert | Media Product Designer, Medill Journalism Professor: Design, Multimedia

SND Digital’s Five Best Designed Apps and Sites

October 11th, 2011

I had the privilege of judging the inaugural, 2010 Society of News Design’s Best of Digital Design competition. Not only did I have a chance to serve (and argue) with some of the world’s best media design thinkers but we also set standards that future judges will follow.

The Society of News Design's 2010 World's Best Designed Sites & Apps
Society of News Design

The competition was rigorous and the decisions difficult but the five World’s Best Designed are:

CNN.com: World’s Best-Designed News Web Site
CNN for iPad: World’s Best Designed News App
The Globe and Mail: World’s Best-Designed News Web site
The Guardian for iPhone: World’s Best-Design Mobile App
NPR for iPad: World’s Best-Designed News App

Just about all of the winning news organizations designed incredible experiences across multiple platforms. Picking which organization on which platform might have been the most difficult part of the judging.

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Nieman Report’s Professor’s Corner: Hacker Chronicles

September 30th, 2011

Writing with Kent State University professor Jacqueline Marino, I explore the teaching of collaborative journalism and computer sciences courses for Harvard’s Nieman Report: Professor’s Corner:

It used to be that calling a journalist a “hack” was considered an insult. Now, tack on “-er” and more than likely the reporter will be flattered. Today tech-savvy journalists are mapping stories, figuring out new ways to share mobile-based news, and changing how investigative reporters gather and analyze their information. This expanding digital landscape for news, especially the significance of data and the promise of mobile, means that computer programming is becoming yet another skill to be taught in journalism classes.

'11 Winter Quarter:

Media & Technology: Journalism and Computer Science Undergraduates will invent and create new applications using agile methods.
Interactive Storytelling: Medill grad students will explore non-narrative, multimedia storytelling on the Web.

'11 Spring Quarter:

Collaborative Innovation in Journalism and Technology: Journalism and Computer Science graduate students will invent and create new applications using agile methods.
Media Design Research and Testing Journalism graduate students will explore how user centered design and usability testing can improve media products.
Interactive Innovation Project: Students will explore the latest online tools and techniques for creating and maintaining news Websites.