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Newsie: Mobile App for News In IndiaBy Kristen FaulknerMobile Home PageThe homepage has 3 subtitles to represent the 3 different sections of the app: World News, Local News, and My Favorites (a user’s saved articles). By scrolling right under each section-heading, a user can view all the articles in that section, sorted by date published. By clicking on an icon under the section heading, a user will be taken to the article’s page. My ArticleThe article I designed chronicles the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia. The article is engaging because the reader can grasp “Who, What, When, Where, and Why” the event happened without needing to understanding English. The English text supplements the images, but it is not required in order to understand what the article is trying to convey. The article shares a relevant news story that people around the world would want to hear about and understand. The article’s images are pulled from other news articles online, but they are converted to black and white and have lower resolution. The images take up less bandwidth and can load fast on a mobile device, but do so without sacrificing the essential information in the picture. Furthermore, this means that the company doesn’t have to draw their own images every time they want to publish a story- they can merely pull images from another source and cite it.

Published on January 31, 2016August 21, 2022 by post_author

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Fifteen Professors of the Year, Harvard Crimson, 2016

Top 50 Thinkers: On the Radar 2018
Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions
, 2018

Laura Dern & DL Director Say Creators Need to ‘Catch Up’ With Audience’s Desire for Diverse Stories, AdWeek, 2018

Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses, MIT Media Lab, 2020

A living (room) lab: With students off campus, faculty and staff innovated to redesign hands-on courses, Harvard SEAS, 2020

Chef League (mobile game) challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros, VentureBeat, 2019.

When it comes to innovation, it’s personal: The secret to successful innovation isn’t a great idea; it’s great people, The Business Post, 2019

Smart kitchens need smarter ideas to solve real problems, Fortune, 2019

Design for Desirability: Game design challenge requires students to think outside the box, Harvard SEAS, 2019

Apply the science of desirability to game design at GDC, Gamasutra: The art and business of making games, 2019

Applying human-centered design processes to build successful teams. Into Practice, Harvard Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning, 2019

Tech that helps us understand ourselves, Future Assembly, 2019

Women changing the way we think about innovation. Stern Speakers, 2019

Loneliness, the fear of digital nomads, Le Temps. (in French), 2019

LA Design Festival spotlights city’s ‘creative diversity and talent’, Dezeen, 2018

Rolling toward a user-friendly commute
Harvard faculty-led startup pioneers human-centric urban travel
, 2017; Vespa’s New Robot Will Carry Your Groceries, CNN Money, 2017

Five Cutting Edge Ideas and Attractions, Boston.com, 2017; Technology That Helps Us Understand Ourselves, HUBWeek, 2017

Food for Thought: Flavor & Algorithms, MIT Museum, 2017

Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education, Harvard Magazine, 2017

Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The future of work or too good to be true?, Forbes, 2015; Why is a Harvard professor studying digital nomads, Nomadlist, 2015

The nature of desirability, The Design Issue, Kinfolk Magazine (paywall), 2015-2016

Harvard Class Teaches the Design of Desirability, Boston Magazine, 2015

A new model for innovation in big companies, Harvard Business Review, 2013

Present at the Creation (Putting research-based creativity tips to the test), Boston Magazine, 2013

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