MTN
Say Good Bye to Fake News
MTN is a news distribution platform that provides easy access for users to cross check news information by having multiple related articles published by different companies
MT News
Objectives
Problems
News app are dedicated to provide information. However, the usability and reliablilty of news app created various challenges for seniors.
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​Seniors are unable to keep up with the features of news apps
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Font sizes are difficult for readability
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Information are overwhelming and misleading
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Misinformation presents, reliability of articles remain unknown
Purpose
Whereas traditional news application only report news distributed by their outlet, MTN displays all of the news in one simple and convenient location for you, the reader
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Instead of bombarding users with news that are not important, users have the option to subscribe to particular outlets and/or writers that they enjoy. Users can also run a quick background check on each one of them to confirm their credibility
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Users are able to provide their opinions and comment on each articles. They can also refer to the comments to determine whether if they articles are trustworthy
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Proposal
Our proposal is to create a user friendly news app to provide ease of use for seniors to navigate and retrieve news information.
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Make clickable area bigger to resolve unresponsive issues
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Make functions more obvious, transparent
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Scrolling instead of swipe/tap
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Change the typeface
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Change the audio function
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Get rid of borders
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Provide more background info for the authors
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Separate each function on its own page
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Add a news reader for fact checker
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Sketches
These are the initial sketches we created to demonstrate the overall flow of our MT news app.
Home Page
Today's News page
Stock Page
Podcast Page
Following Page
Fact Check Page
Process
This is our color scheme based on researches of seniors' favorite colors
This is the base iteration of our MT news app based on the initial sketches. We tried to each draw an iteration so as to explore more ideas and concepts which is reflected in the other images
This is another one of our description. For this iteration, the goal was to create a UI that focused a lot on swiping and tapping. This kind of UI was inspired by Kindle
For this iteration, the UI focus was mostly scrolling and clicking. This design element was inspired by apps such as Twitter, where the text information has a word limit
Our last iteration, this design tried to go simpler. A lot of the design language involves curves and smooth edges instead of the traditional rectangular design
Feature Breakdown
Fact Checker
Ever wonder where the news you are consuming is credible? Ever wonder about the background of the reporter? Ever want to only subscribe to a particular company? With our Fact Checker feature, you can have it all conveniently in one place
Audio
Have trouble hearing? Want to listen to the news while on the go? With our audio player, you can do just that. Our app highlights the texts for you to provide guidance across the pages
Following Page
Easily check which news outlet and reporters you follow, all conveniently found in one place
Appendix
Designing Interactions PDF
Research & Proposal
PDF
User Testing PDF
