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Interactive Digital News Design 2014

“Inform, Engage and Delight Your News Readers Audience”

Sharing Valuable Experiences in Interactive Digital News Design –
Be among the best media in providing great editorial content, while successfully engaging your readers and putting the awesomeness back into interactive user experience. With creativity and innovation and a reader centric focused strategy, you can successfully design exciting news across various platforms and reach out to your audiences effectively.

Experts from various news organizations will be sharing their experiences with recent re-designed and re-launched digital editions at the “Interactive Digital News Design 2014” conference (28-29 April 2014, Singapore).

Join the industry as it focuses on the strategic planning and designing of meaningful and powerfully designed news pages for various digital platforms.

Discover the secrets to and hallmarks for great (not just good) digital news design! Get the inside story on storytelling with better reader engagement strategies along with awesome user experiences factored into the overall design of your news! Glean new insights and innovative roadmaps to successful branding for your media.

Key themes explored:
• User Experience & Design
• Success with Infographics
• Global Case Studies – on Successful Re-launched Re-Designed Projects
• Understanding Reader Habits
• Interactive Tablet & Mobile Editions
• Story Structuring and Layout
• Visual & Data Journalism
• Design and Brand Value
• Responsive Apps & Design
• News Design Workflow
• Social Media and Design Considerations
• Data Visualization Tools
• Sports News Design
• Story Telling Tools
• News Visuals & Tools, Techniques
• Visual Story Telling

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Why you should attend this meeting
Today, the world has become incredibly “mobile” and “multi-screen” with approximately 65% readers’ worldwide consuming news and content on various screens at different parts of the day. From smartphones to tablets and to phablets, starting with great editorial content, news organizations will enjoy great success as they produce news designs that provide a great user experience, interactive functions and apps to suit today’s digital news consumption patterns.

Interactive Digital News Design 2014 will provide the latest developments on digital news design from the global scene. It will feature useful case studies and good insights from successful re-launched projects and tablet editions. Attend this niche conference and join your peers and colleagues from the industry and participate actively in the discussions. Get real practical insights on interactive design strategies, maximizing the user experience and interfaces and leveraging technology to enable better readership and better bottom-line performance for the news media organization.

Get the Latest Trends and Developments on Interactive Digital News Design!
Strategic Insights on these topics:
 Storytelling and interactive digital news design – Why visuals matter so much in the digital age. Find out more.
 Tracing the browsing journey & understanding the psychology behind digital reading habits
 Latest trends and developments on digital news design around the world
 Designs & ROIs, get the full picture
 The effective use of Infographics in visual journalism – Behind the scenes on the use of infographics
 Interactive news apps design
• Designing newspaper and magazine editions for tablets – Outlining the success factors in the design process, transiting from print to online and storytelling at its best. Insights on a roadmap to a successful tablet edition of news
 How social media impacts digital news design
 How to leverage the use of infographics in telling stories to digital readers utilizing the most intelligent and high quality visual graphics.
 Visual designs & enhancing brand value
 Case studies on GREAT vs. GOOD designs showcasing:
 Redesigned and re-launched projects
 Award winning works
 Vernacular news-sites & tablet designs
 Digital news designs for sports, lifestyle, elections campaigns
 The difference between good vs. great digital news design – Case studies of visual designs illustrating the bad, the good and the best designs. What it means to have good vs. great designs? Where are the fault lines?
 iPads design and interactions, useful functions and layouts for maximum viewer engagements
 Breaking news with Interactive designs, the most important key trends
 Designing for readers of different profiles and demographics on digital platforms
 Know the important points to consider in the process of production. Different platform means different experience. So as designer, how do you make the transition from print to digital?
 Successful front page digital designs
 Avoiding errors under pressure
 Strategies and resource planning before embarking on a major re-design, re-launch project
 The leadership that is required for a successful strategy and rollout of the design department in the overall strategic move
 Repositioning roles in a re-launch project
 An in-depth review of various roles from Newsroom leadership, Creative leadership, media business and partnership leadership, Digital Journalists, Visual Journalists & Photo-journalists and how this ultimately impacts design, and viewer readership and engagement factors and the quantity and quality of time they spend with your media.
 Inspiring and nurturing great design teams
 What are the considerations for team members who lag behind with time and new technology innovations?
 Breaking barriers and inspiring teams to further achieve goals – Improving communications between designers and journalists and editors esp. during tight schedules and impossible deadlines etc.
 *Workshop session on “Production & Workflow Strategies Sessions” – from roadmaps to a successful tablet edition to technical explanations on the most effective use of visual graphics, typography, colors, layout, story structuring, modular templates, content hierarchies, code libraries and tools, etc.
Who will benefit most from attending?
• Strategic Teams – CEOs and Managing Directors & Editors of Media Organizations who understand and prize the value and integral role which interactive news design play in the overall branding and ultimate ROI of your media
• Graphic & Art Heads of Departments – Great strategic value for Design or Art Directors from Media companies (Newspapers and Magazine Designers, Graphic Artists, Digital Designers & Web Designers who are always looking at new strategies and innovative approaches to bring news design to the next level.
• Editorial & Journalists Teams – Also highly relevant for Editorial Teams – Editors, Section Heads & Section Editors, sub-Editors who look for ways to improve both content and visualization in enhancing the value and quality journalism work and passion.

Who will you meet?
Meet Professionals & Senior Executives from MEDIA COMPNIES
• Newspapers
• Online editions of news media agencies
• Newswires using digital platforms to break news
• Can include print news media who are either re-launching their online news or re-designing for an upgrade
• Publishing companies who have online content / news
• Content producing companies who produce content from sports news, to lifestyle news, to business news reporting etc…

Meet the Stakeholders – Your Colleagues & Peers & maximize your networking at the event!
• EDITORIAL (Editors of Sports, Business, Lifestyle content & news), Digital Editors, Sub-Editors, Head Editors, Graphics Editor, Visual Editor, Chief Copy Editor, Editor – New Platforms, Head of news, Head of Technology Transformation, Digital Development Editor & Social Media Editor
• TOP MANAGEMENT (From CEOs, MD’s VP’s to Managing Publishers
• CREATIVE (From Creative Art Directors, Heads of Design Dept to Graphic Designers, Interactive Artists & Web Designers, Chief Copywriters & Infographics Designers
• JOURNALISTS / New Producers (From Digital/Photo/Data/Visual /Multimedia Journalists to Photographers & News-flow Coordinators and News Producer
• MARKETING (From Ad Sales Directors/Managers, to Subscription Sales & Marketing Heads)
• TECHNICAL & TECHNOLOGY – (From Heads of Technology & Innovation to IT / Technology Directors)

For enquiries and for info to attend this event, please contact:

Deborah Crystal Lee
Marketing Manager
Interactive Digital News Design 2014
Email – marketing-55@asher-russell.com

Organized by
Asher Russell Events Pte Ltd

Organizer of the highly successful Digital Journalism World 2013
We welcome you to join us!

When

28th April 2014 09:00 am
To 29th April 2014 05:30 pm

Where

Singapore
Singapore
Singapore