Yahoo News Digest
Yahoo News Digest delivers a definitive summary of all the need-to-know news to users twice a day, sifting through redundant information so consumers don’t have to. The app uses Alike technology to identify chatter and articles on the web, an algorithm to measure the significance of a story, multidocument summarization, sentence-level analysis and a quotes-extraction tool that is exclusive to Yahoo. Add comprehensive clustering and de-duping, a touch of Summly’s algorithmic technology and a bit of curation from the editorial team to select important articles, and you have a remedy for information overload.
• Forty percent of those who download become daily users.
• It won the Apple Design Award, Google’s Best of App and Webby Awards
Role: Lead Designer