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Duration: July 2020
Role: Designer, Engineer
Skills + Tools: Adobe XD, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Web Development, UX/UI, Branding
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Our new feeds can become quite depressing, especially since news outlets tend to capitalize on the shocking or negative news. *The Good News,* is a small, wholesome website that exclusively curates a feed of uplifting news stories from around the world. This website was created in response to the design prompt: how might we empower people in the world of COVID-19 ?
The whole purpose of The Good News is to provide a calming, happy news experience to a weary reader. In order to achieve this effect, it was integral that the design of this website featured a calming color palette and a pleasant atmosphere. I prototyped what the website would look like on Adobe XD before building the final product.
Using an external web scraper pulled via GitHub, I scraped several mainstream news websites for exclusively positive news headlines, and stored them all as a JSON file.
After gathering the relevant information, I wrote a simple Python script to parse the JSON file to filter out non-positive headlines that were mixed in, as well as take out relevant information such as the headline, image, author, publish date, and link to the article.