LA User Experience Meetup
• March 20, 2008
• Chandler Auditorium
• Los Angeles Times
Welcome
• Introduction: Arvind Puri
• Host: Weston Thompson, Jody Perez
• Historic LA Times Building
• Movies like Dreamgirls, Rendition
• Shows like 24, Shark
• A different kind of user experience
Who we are
• Interactive team behind latimes.com properties
• Our industry is going through a major transition
• New wave of innovation
• User experience is implicitly tied with quality
• Our mission is to deliver world class content on a
world class platform
• Visualize the news in new formats
• We are hiring IA’s!
Show and tell
• LA Times
• Kareem blog
• Travel - Daily Deals
• Entertainment - Topics
• Search Engine
• The Guide – Listings
• FireSearch
Show and Tell
• News visualization
• Homicide Map
• Primary Tracker
• Final Four map
• Word Count Tracker
• Mobile efforts
• Mobile LAT
Thanks
• Tools of the UX Trade!