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Maria Ermides Stegner

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Parents Tablet Enhancements

  At Meredith Corp., I worked with a small team of designers and editors to adapt print content into an interactive tablet edition for our digital subscribers. When I first started working on this project, I noticed several things that needed imp
  Colors - too many pastels! The first thing we noticed was that the tablet layouts were using CMYK colors that were lifted off the print layouts (when copying and pasting content). In the print version of the magazine, there were a lot of pas
  UI Elements We created a library of symbols, buttons, arrows, bullets and directional text to make it easy and intuitive for the reader to move around the pages and interact with the content.  
  Simplified page structure In order to improve on the information architecture and navigation on the Contents and Age-by-Age Guide pages, we went back to the drawing board and sketched out simpler, more intuitive layouts. We wanted to make
  From the paper prototypes, we put together some wireframes with the new design for the front-of-book pages. We wanted to streamline the process of translating the print content into the digital edition as much as possible, with plug-and-play temp
  Here is an example of the redesigned Contents and Age-by-age guide, and Index  pages based on the earlier prototypes. All of the articles are listed on each page, and the reader can see the whole issue at a glance. We stuck with black t
  Playroom Redesign Another area that needed rethinking was the Playroom section. This was an 8-page roundup of the latest children's books, movies, music, video games, along with a quiz and monthly calendar. When landing on the opening page of
  ...and came up with a simpler, flat design. We got rid of the video (which caused longer download times), and commissioned illustrator Lucy Vigrass to create a set of simple, yet bold illustrations that would work well with the editorial content.
  New Section: Toolbox Another navigational enhancement we did was to create a section called Toolbox at the back of the issue, to house all of the recipes and craft project instructions . We loved working with illustrator Lucy Vigrass on the P
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