The Washington Post | Photo CMS
Product Design, Strategy, Concept, UX Researcher
Feb 2022 - Present
Difficult workflows.
From a few lenses.
Anglerfish is a photo CMS built to support The Washington Post. This CMS supports workflows for Photo Editors, Journalists, The Newsroom, Editors, and Assignment Desks.
In its current form, most users find it clunky and difficult to navigate. Users have challenges images quickly.
Many users are left feeling frustrated and unable to use the tool to its maximum potential.
Adjust the focus.
This redesign effort had several major factors to account for in its redesign.
Distilling 3 programs into 1.
Migration from a former photo ingestion platform.
Robust organization tools and workflows from Photomechanic.
Utilizing our existing framework at the Post.
Current and future integrations.
Ensuring capability with current article CMS
Cross-collaboration with other publishing tools designers
Future Mobile explorations needed to be considered
Give the people what they want!
Extensive User studies and workflow research was needed to fully understand the most effective redesign.
I also got to throw in some fun bells and whistles!
Pictured this.
I Give the users what they wanted… and what they didn’t know they needed.
This full overhaul provided a slew of vital functions essential to Power User’s workflows while keeping the UI simple and intuitive for newer users.
This redesign included the following:
Upload Modal
Upload Experience
Multiple Image/Type/Template Uploads
Meta Data fields Layout
New Search Grid
New “Status at a Glance” on Images
Lightbox View
Drag & Drop
Private & Sahred Folders
Color System
Tagging
Selected Image Preview
Artistic and Informative View
Bulk Status Update Function
Keyboard shortcuts
Updated Filters
Just to name a few…
This iterative project required collaboration from Media Engineers, Photo Editors, The Assignment Desk, and The Newsroom.
If you’d like a full case study.