Build a Trustworthy Industry News Briefing
Design a news dashboard that helps professionals follow a specific industry, compare sources, and catch important updates.
The brief
Understand the problem
Background
Professionals often need a narrow set of reliable updates rather than a general news feed. Repeated reporting, unclear publication times, and opinion presented as news make scanning difficult.
User context
Nadia works in renewable energy procurement and checks policy, supply-chain, and market news each morning before a team briefing.
Product problem
A personalized feed can become repetitive or opaque. Readers need to understand source, recency, topic, and whether multiple stories describe the same event.
Objective
Create a focused news briefing with source context, topic controls, and grouped coverage.
What to design
Define the experience
Required experience
- Topic and region preference setup
- Daily briefing with clustered stories
- Article detail with source and update history
- Saved briefing collection
Screens and states
- Preference setup
- Briefing feed
- Coverage cluster
- Article detail
Core user flow
Follow the critical path
- 01
Nadia chooses industries, regions, and alert priority
- 02
She scans a morning briefing organized by impact
- 03
She opens a cluster containing several reports about one policy change
- 04
She compares sources and reads the latest update
- 05
She saves the cluster for her team meeting
Product rules
Requirements and constraints
Requirements
- Display original publication and latest update times
- Group substantially similar coverage without hiding source differences
- Distinguish reporting, analysis, press releases, and opinion
- Let users tune topic and notification frequency
- Preserve source attribution when a story is saved or shared
Constraints
- The same event may be described with different terminology
- Source reliability can vary by topic and region
- Breaking information may be incomplete
Reality check
States worth considering
Finish line
What to deliver
- Design four responsive screens for setup, briefing, grouped coverage, and article context.
Optional direction
Visual resources
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