9News
Student Degree Project / University of Waikato / 2014
Designer: Dingzhou Li
URL: dingzhouli.com/9news
9News is basically a news reader app, with function to detect users’ reading preference via geometric shapes and lines, along with extremely intensive consideration of readability and usability.
Nowadays people gain information from social media and news portals. However, social networks only show you what you care about based on your same age/hobby friends. News portals websites like BBC or New Yorks Times focus on showing complete news flow to readers and give them choice to find news that satisfied their needs. A great number of young people, paticulerly teenagers do not have a good enough knowledge system and thrist for history, science and technology in New Zealand.
9News is kind of like a RSS web app without subsribing function, so top news that covers a big range of categories would automitically pushed to readers without any settings. I think the most important thing is to let young people know something is happinging around them, but not let themselves to find out what is important as they do not have such will.
Overall, I would like to show how I connect users' reading preference and geometrical shapes. I gained the basic idea from <Understanding Comics>, where shows some great examples of relationship between how basic shapes and lines affects emotions. For the interactive part, I tried to combine what I learnt via the reasearch and keep consistency of design style.
Thank you for watching.
Click here to see it in action.