WORK

Panraven's Story Editor Redesign

ROLE • Creative Direction, Interaction
DESCRIPTION • Since its first version, Panraven’s fully web-based WYSIWYG page layout program, Story Editor, has provided thousands of people with a user-friendly solution for commemorating and sharing life events.

Panraven’s patented WYSIWYG text editor (included in an update to the second release of the editor), was built from the ground up and runs on a typographic rule set that I researched and developed in close collaboration with the Editor’s Chief Engineer.

For the third release of the editor, currently under development, we will deploy a greatly expanded range of new editing and collaboration functionality. I ensured that our Design team employed tested and innovative interaction principles and patterns to maintain a user-centric experience in all aspects of the upgrade. The Story Editor requires especially rigorous attention to interaction, as many Panraven members are senior citizens using a page layout program for the first time. We crafted each action to guarantee user success and satisfaction, whether uploading new media to a story, inserting images or video into pages, creating a table of contents, adding pages or editing text.