Lenfest Local Lab

Sharing the designs and style guide for our location-aware news app, HERE for Local Journalism. Link toSharing the designs and style guide for our location-aware news app, HERE for Local Journalism.

Keeping our commitment to sharing our work and being transparent while we experiment, we wanted to make all of the HERE…

Why we think location—as well as motion detection—matters when it comes to sending great news notifications, and how we used…

How we worked around Apple’s limit of 64 local pending notifications to build the HERE for Local Journalism app. We…

How the Lab’s transparency principle impacts engineering, plus the release of our first open-source code for the HERE for Local Journalism app.…

Our first experimental app explores what’s made possible by geotagging local news stories and delivering them when you’re nearby. Local…

Our four-step process for moving from pen & pencil sketches to complete product design for our location-aware local news app.…

A glimpse into how much timing really mattered — and maybe shouldn’t need to — when it came to building…

A first look at our user-focused approach to scoping and building new experimental local news products. Editor’s note: As part…

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