Lenfest Local Lab

A look into the Lenfest Local Lab’s UX research toolkit Link toA look into the Lenfest Local Lab’s UX research toolkit

The methods we’ve used to guide our thinking and tips on when to use them. Research lays the foundation for…

A look into the Lenfest Local Lab’s UX research toolkit Link toA look into the Lenfest Local Lab’s UX research toolkit

Research lays the foundation for product development because it’s important to get to know your audience before making something for…

A Starting Point for Building AI Link toA Starting Point for Building AI

Five Ways to Think About Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Product Development The Challenge Market leaders across the United States understand…

Introducing Philly Eats: A local restaurant app that puts hundreds of professional reviews right at your fingertips. Link toIntroducing Philly Eats: A local restaurant app that puts hundreds of professional reviews right at your fingertips.

An experiment in finding out what happens when you make local reviews easier for people to search, scan, save and…

Sharing the designs and style guide for our restaurant review app. Link toSharing the designs and style guide for our restaurant review app.

Keeping with our commitment to share our work and be transparent while we experiment, we’re making all of the design…

Online, On Paper and In Person: The lightweight methods we used to redesign the mobile UX for local restaurant reviews. Link toOnline, On Paper and In Person: The lightweight methods we used to redesign the mobile UX for local restaurant reviews.

Five simple research and prototyping tools we used to reimagine how locals find the best of what’s around them. Ideas…

Oh, The Locations You’ll Go… Link toOh, The Locations You’ll Go…

Local journalism is all about location: No matter if you’re covering a city or a neighborhood, reporting is always focused…

Finding insights along a SEPTA transit route that may lead to local news product innovation in Philadelphia Link toFinding insights along a SEPTA transit route that may lead to local news product innovation in Philadelphia

To build products that are better at meeting people where they are, you can learn a lot by going where…

“Hi, this is Jonathan Lai.” Why texting continues to be a big opportunity for newsrooms to customize news and start a conversation with their audience. Link to“Hi, this is Jonathan Lai.” Why texting continues to be a big opportunity for newsrooms to customize news and start a conversation with their audience.

Inquirer reporters Jonathan Lai and Christian Hetrick introduce themselves. Text messaging gets overlooked in most local news strategies. Maybe it…

18 conferences for connecting and collaborating with people shaping the future of journalism. Link to18 conferences for connecting and collaborating with people shaping the future of journalism.

We brainstormed a short list of conferences where cross-disciplinary journalism/tech folks can to hang out, connect, recharge and learn—but we…

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