The project was to turn Pulse from a news aggregator to a more relevant and personalized stream of content. Instead of displaying a long condensed list of articles to sort and parse through, the idea is to focus on larger more visual content pieces that show reasons for why someone is seeing what they are seeing. The reader page has also been redesigned with serifed type faces, and larger cover photo experiences to help bring each article to life. Some of the bonus features in the redesign, includes an easy to tap reader (scraped) view that takes 3rd party articles and scrapes the text into our own template design.
Process:
The lead designer and I split up the work between the product, where I focused primarily on the reader page design. Along with owning the reader page, I assisted with feed / header transitions and design alignment. One of our major goals during the redesign was to also align our animation and design elements with the rest of Linkedin's content products.
Deliverables:
-Reader page interaction patterns
-high fidelity reader page mocks and specs
-interaction prototypes for feed and reader page
-design sync of mobile reader page with desktop