Telegraph: Redefining One Of India’s Leading News Portals

Translating a legacy newspaper to a digital experience through superior UX

Industry

News, Media and Entertainment

Platforms

Responsive web portal

Expertise & Services

UI UX Design

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper that was first published on 7th July 1982 by the ABP Group. This pan-India newspaper is most popular in Calcutta and is the eighth most widely consumed newspaper across the country.

The design director of London’s The Sunday Times, Edwin Taylor, designed the newspaper which was translated into a static desktop-based website. The leadership envisioned an enhanced digital presence that resonates with the values and heritage of the brand.

Think Design was onboarded as a design partner to give Telegraph a new face with the same identity.

Telegraph

Our Strategy

The Thinker Approach

We began by conducting a strategy and alignment workshop with the Telegraph digital team, aimed at capturing business objectives, insights, and vision for the product.

Competitor analysis of direct and indirect competitors helped us establish benchmarks. This gave us an overview of the features commonly integrated across the industry. The team engaged in a perpetual mapping exercise to map competitors against relevant metrics.
Technology aspects were also considered to narrow down constraints for potential design directions.

Finally, user journey and behavior were understood by exploring all possible scenarios, including their entry and exit on the website utilizing the insights we gained from competitor analysis. This altogether helped us craft design direction.

Insights We Drew/ Insights Inferred

What differentiates Telegraph from other newspapers in India is its curated, fleet street and fearless journalism. This outstanding positioning had to be accurately represented in the digital medium through an effective design strategy.

Key Strategic Interventions

Hierarchy in Visual Design

News delivery made easy for users to consume, through visual hierarchy.

Simpler Navigation

Simpler navigation for users to quickly move within the website.

Influenced by the Newspaper

Retaining the essence of the newspaper in the digital medium was critical for an effective experience.

KEY FEATURES

01

Enhanced Navigation

Similar stories and articles were stringed together, bringing them together through effective visual hierarchy. This connection allowed for easy navigation, ushering users to traverse through more news articles around the central piece of content they initially landed on.

02

Packaged to Differentiate

  • The blogs, articles, and news were differentially highlighted to bring forth their essence powerfully.
  • The editors for every bit of content were given the much-deserved limelight through author-driven placements and page structuring across the website.

03

Extended Reach

By designing an adaptive website responsive, we aimed to establish the brand for a pan-India and global audience. Making it accessible for users to consume news on any device was a critical step.

04

Telegraph’s Essence Kept Alive

Keeping in mind the tenets of bold headlines and fearless journalism, the design was conceptualized to reveal a visual interpretation of the same.

DESIGN ACTIVITIES

Consulting

Stakeholder
Workshop

Strategy and
product Definition

Visual System

UI UX Design

Prototyping

Front End
Development

Portal development

Outcomes and Impacts

The transformed web news portal went live in 2018 and has been garnering superior user engagement.

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Elevating digital journalism for the modern audience
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Revolutionizing the online news experience for global users
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Unique identity through visual language, color palette and choice of imagery and typefaces.