Posts tagged ‘design’
Help pick the web’s best sites, apps and widgets: Enter SND’s best of Digital News Design
Monday, January 30th, 2012
The deadline for SND’s Best of Digital Design competition is coming right up. You have until Feb. 15 to get your entries up against the best sites, apps and digital work from around the world. Our team of judges from around the world will pick the best data-driven projects, photography and video, overall site design and usability and mobile and tablet apps. This year we will also let users give input via our competition site. Stay tuned for more details.
Nominate a site or app as for world’s best designed: http://digital.snd.org/worlds-best-nominations/
If you’d like to see the winners of our 2011 Digital Design Competition: http://digital.snd.org/2012/01/04/2011-winners/
Enter SND’s Best of Digital Design competition: http://digital.snd.org/submit-entry/
Deadline to enter: Feb. 15, 2012 (midnight PST).
SND’s Best of Digital Design competition 2.0
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get your entries ready for SND’s annual competitions for the best work online and in print. The site for SND’s digital competition is now open for business, with revisions aimed at further improving the contest and make it easier for you to showcase your work, while SND’s creative competition deadline is right around the corner.
How to enter the print competition here. Deadline for U.S. entries is Wednesday, Jan. 11 and for international entries is Wednesday, Jan. 18.
How to enter the digital competition here. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Quality and quantity: where to focus cross-platform editing resources
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Our newsrooms aren’t getting any more resources, even while our work grows more demanding. SEO this! Re-edit this for print! Get it online now! Where do we focus our limited time and effort, and is there a research-driven basis for it? Teresa Schmedding, president of the American Copy Editors Society and AME of the Daily
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Zite CEO & Washington Post’s Trove designer discuss designing personalized news experiences on tablet devices
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Our next ground-breaking session couldn’t have been done 10, even 2 years ago: Designing Personalized Tablet News Nicolas Negroponte’s 1970s prophecy of “The Daily Me” is now here. Dozens of organizations from traditional media to start-ups are now creating unique, customized tablet news experiences that embrace the tablet as a personalized publishing platform. This session
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Lars Pryds shows how “In cold Scandinavia, magazines are hot” at SND STL
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Our next speaker comes to us from the far north for a sizzling session: In cold Scandinavia, magazines are hot Newspapers are struggling to survive, cutting costs and staff – and it shows on the pages. Magazines seems to have more room for experiments, and visuals are part of the fight to get and keep
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“Tapworthy” author Josh Clark presents, “Touching News: The New Rules of Tablet Media” at SND STL
Monday, July 18th, 2011
We’re ecstatic to announce that touch interaction design visionary Josh Clark will join us at SND STL to discuss interaction design principles for mobile and tablet devices: Touching News: The New Rules of Tablet Media Touch, tap, flick, and pinch the news. Touch interfaces, especially on tablets, hold the promise for entirely new media experiences that are both
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Regina McCombs & Roger Fidler present a round up and new release of mobile & tablet research
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Our next session, and first announcement from the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance partnership, will offer a plethora of data and research about mobile and tablet usage with two experts in the field. It’ll be the first session of the day-long mobile and tablet track, so make sure you grab a nutritious breakfast because we’re kickin’
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SND Gold Medal winner Qingjun Zhang will discuss his Golden Tiger at SND STL
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
We’re excited to announce our next speaker for SND STL, winner of a rare SND Gold Medal for his design work on the Chinese Tiger calendar package, Qingjun Zhang! He will be discussing, “The state and the trend of Chinese ‘serious’ Newspapers and the Golden Tiger” including his Gold Medal project (photos above, courtesy of
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Who made a visual difference in 2010?
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
SND Design Journal is compiling a list of visual newsmakers for 2010 and wants your ideas.
Designers: Restrain yourself
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Growing up, my mom always told me to KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. And although I should have been slightly offended at my mother calling me stupid, I took her advice to heart. Listening to Julie Elman share her secrets behind a well-designed photo spread, I’m glad I had listened to my mom; turns out,
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Human-Centered Design
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Like many college students, I had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Honestly, I still don’t have an answer for you. I spent five years at the University of Washington studying various topics and taking myriad classes in different subject matter. And I found a major that seemed
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From Print to Web and Back, with a World’s Best
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Designers from a World’s Best newspaper der Freitag discuss how they approached their print and Web redesign. Keeping the focus on reader interaction and a political debate format, they created stunning products that are easy to navigate and visually engaging.
Breaking out with Russia’s Best Designed
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Svetlana Maximchenko leads her newsroom with one charge: Please do something crazy — break out. When was the last time your boss uttered those words? The editor-in-chief and founder of Akzia newspaper shared an hour of the wealth of print design currently happening in Russia. Her general interest biweekly has won two World’s Best Designed awards
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Living a ‘drag and drop’ life
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Ease and usability of so many apps, web sites, interactive graphics is by far its their saving-grace.
How to keep design smart on a tight budget with Dan Zedek
Friday, September 24th, 2010
In his presentation on Friday morning, titled “Smart Design on a Tight Budget,” Zedek handed out tips and techniques for those working in newsrooms with little to no budget for design, photography and illustration.
Sara Quinn and her platforms
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Sara Quinn from The Poynter Institute Sara, what’s your favorite platform to tell a story? Print, mobile, web? A: I think it’s still print but I’m becoming more adept to other possibilities and falling in love with other platforms. Q: What can multimedia do now that print will never be able to tackle? A: Tying
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