Tips on news product prototypes from Bella Hurrell

We asked Bella Hurrell, Deputy Editor of the BBC News Visual Journalism Team, about what makes a good product prototype and what are the challenges that you have to face when building them. In this video, she shares with us the tools that the BBC uses for building their prototypes and what their vision is.

Build quick and dirty prototypes that you can test with people. Don’t invest huge amounts of time in something if you are not that sure about it […] and give up when it is a good time to do it!

 

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Michaela Gruber is a journalism and media management student, based in Vienna, Austria. During her studies she spent a semester abroad in France, where she started working for HEI-DA.

As the company’s communication officer, she is in charge of the Data Journalism Blog and several social media activities. This year, Michaela was HEI-DA’s editor covering the Data Journalism Awards in Lisbon, Portugal.