GoGlobal News
A news based platform centered on dynamic interactions & story-driven information
Location-based News Experience
The premise behind GoGlobal News was how contemporary news outlets inform and engage everyday people with their news. Our team found the standard platforms to be painful, biased, and shallow in their approach.
We wanted to develop a method to pull the user into location-based news experiences and have the impact of perspectives, locality, and depth.
So we started with a globe...
Our team's focus was connecting stories and Deep-Diving on Global Events
This was our final globe design - out of roughly 100 iterations
We struggled to find a good globe API to support the product in a web app environment. It was a necessity for the globe to have a fluid and intuitive feel within the browser. It was also critical for the visual feel of the globe to be minimal in contrast to the content it was showing so the user wouldn't be overwhelmed.
Finally, our team decided on a stylized depiction of the landmasses with pale colors to let the imagery and stories speak during the experience. It ultimately became a highlight of the user experience - simply spinning the globe was a joy in itself.
Figma mockups: Main interface
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Conceptual Understanding
Our team had to build a method of understanding the industry, environment, and current state of global & local news. Given the numerous conflicts and emotions within the space, we build models and refined our ideas.
Within the designs below, we communicated contemporary issues, user flows, and psychological patterns which drive the readers of news.
Final designs
Knowing when to move on
GoGlobal News was a valuable proving ground. It forced our team to solve real interface problems around density, navigation, and how much context a reader needs before a story clicks into place. The globe interaction alone taught me more about balancing minimalism against information overload than any brief could have.
But as we built, it became clear the deeper opportunity wasn't in the news layer. It was in the underlying question of how people make sense of complex, unstructured information at all. That insight became the seed for Ochre, the venture I went on to co-found. GoGlobal wasn't a dead end; it was the R&D that told us what to build next.