This American Life

Team: Black Pixel
Platforms: iOS and Android
Duration: 5 months (2017-2018)

In 2018, the award-winning public radio program and podcast This American Life launched a rebrand, accompanied by a new responsive website and new iOS and Android apps. The Black Pixel team had the pleasure of designing and developing those new mobile apps.

Our design team worked closely with the show’s stakeholders, beginning with an initial discovery engagement. This phase allowed us to explore a wide range of potential features and flows for the new apps, then refine and iterate on those options to nail down a scope, budget, and timeline for the new apps.

While the groundwork for the new apps was laid during discovery, we continued refining the designs throughout much of the development phase, to insure a highly polished user experience once the redesigned apps were released.