Editorial Tool: Layout Manager
I led the Editorial Tools initiative from the ideation to pitching to the upper management to creating enhanced user experience and interface design of the layout manager. Current editorial flow for publishing and creating digital layouts are through proprietary tools - Methode and CAPS collection - which are very cumbersome, complex, and time-consuming. The goal for the project was to create an enhanced layout tool for our editors to easily publish stories and create layouts more freely with pre-defined components that have been approved by the design/ux team so that editors have more freedom and can create various combination of layouts themselves without the technology and design teams’ help. I have gone through multiple iterations of the revision for the flow and passed on the first set of assets for engineering team to build and that was my last task before I left WSJ.