Sarah Sampsel

The Washington Post for iPad – Modules and Rules

It’s easy to spot the grid within the section pages in The Post’s iPad app and notice how each story is treated in a singular way. This isn’t far off from the way the newspaper treats stories — but it’s a much different approach from what you see on the web, where stories are packaged with [...]

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Beginning the Visual Design for The Washington Post for iPad

Approaching the visual design of the iPad application was pretty easy at first. The Post has a very recognizable newspaper that recently went through a redesign and a web site going through tremendous visual and technical transformation. What elements across these products can we borrow? What do the very loyal users and readers want to [...]

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Pentagon Memorial

On September 11, 2008, the first 9/11 memorial was dedicated at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. To commemorate the event, The Washington Post published a special section with victim tributes, information on the memorial design, and touching stories about the familes. I was the lead designer for the online content for this project. In addition [...]

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Voices From The Recession

Voices of The Recession is an occasional series of video stories about the economic downturn’s impact on people in the D.C. region. The videos by Pierre Kattar show an interesting variety of stories, conveying both positive and negative effects of the recession in a very human, personal way. I designed and developed the interface to [...]

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