Fable
Crowdsourced news stories
01
Generating initial ideas
Diary studies over 1 week / 7 Participants
6 months into Covid lockdowns in Mumbai – exploring everyday moods and productivity.
Solution 1: App to transform spontaneous cravings into everyday rituals
Solution 2: App to co-create news with the community
02
How would a user understand a news crowdsourcing app?
Exploratory contextual inquiry / 2 Participants
Translating into Information Design
03
Classifying user behaviors
Quant. survey / 76 participants
04
How do the user types work together?
Qual. experiment / 5 participants
Circulated an editable google doc between 5 participants one after another over 2 weeks to anonymously co-create, critique, and improve a story on a shared interest.
05
Translating into functionality
Light & heavy editing features
Objective legitimacy standards
Deeper engagement with content