Times Open, One-Sprint Digital Products and More
I recently discovered Times Open, a collective blog written by the digital product team at The New York Times about their work.
The purpose of Times Open is to share stories about digital product design/deployment from inside The New York Times.
The editor is Sarah Bures, and the contributors range from technologists, to experience designers, to data scientists, even operations people.
Times Open is channeled into a few themes including Code, Data, Product/Design and Workplace Culture.
I happened upon the site by chance, as I was trying to track down an illustration by Rose Wong that I saw in the newspaper over the weekend.
I didn’t find the image, but I found a similar one by Wong illustrating an article on Times Open called “Giving Readers Control”. (Above.)
The headline and illustrations don’t perfectly fit the article (which is about a low-bandwdth version of the NYT app) but they are powerful in their simplicity. And certainly increased my engagement with the piece and appreciation of the site.
A few examples of topics covered on the current home screen of Times Open are - launching a product in one sprint, the impact of 5G on journalism, focusing the reader experience by minimizing distractions, and developing site documentation collaboratively.
So if you want to know more about the logic behind the magic of The Times’s digital products, then take a look at Times Open.
Times Open is published on Medium. You can read or follow it here:
