In showing my work to some people, I found that on the whole they said that it was lacking connections between the images shown. There wasn’t much of a narrative being shown for the stories. So I started experimenting with making the UI reflect the conversations its showing.

How Boris Johnson refused to fight the virus

^ Conversational

I made a prototype that prioritises the conversation of the story, rather than the article itself in a familiar interface.

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https://stripe-weak-aragosaurus.glitch.me/

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It guides the reader to get more from each story by bring the first paragraph forward in the user flow and then encourages reading commentary from twitter underneath.

I redesigned it such that it still has the same flow of conversation but looks like Apple news, so I could compare them purely on the basis of information consumed.

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https://obtainable-meowing-hovercraft.glitch.me/

To test this I loaded up Apple news on a phone and loaded the same stories with the links form the stories in apple news in my interface to do an A/B test to compare.

I found it was incredible difficult to test the knowledge and perspectives some had on a story before and after as they didn’t change much in either my interface or Apple News. So I focused more on general feedback on the interface.

User 1: was able to recall more details about a subset of the stories form apple news, but little form my interface. Felt the interface had far too much information on it.

User 2: Said the images got in the way a lot of the time. Once showed the previous interface above said they much preferred more words.

User 3: Too much content in one space. Felt the news was all form one source.

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With the feedback on the homogeny of the stories, I made an interface using Google Trends to source stories and tweets from. Google Trends and headlines from Reddit has so far proven the best.