MARIA G VASILIEVA
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Slashdot.org (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters".
It features news stories on science and technology that are submitted and evaluated by its users. Each story has a comments section attached to it.
Visit Slashdot.org website using Wayback Machine ​​to experience the real difference:
SLASHDOT MARCH 2015 / BEFORE
SLASHDOT FEBRUARY 2016 / AFTER
Project: Slashdot.org
Client: SlashdotMedia
Role: UX Designer
​Terms: March 2015 - February 2016

Overall look and feel 

Main Page, Story Detail Page, Polls Main Mage, Polls Main Details Page, Submission Page (Firehorse) were updated and reintroduced in a manner appropriate to the Slashdot community. An engagement area was added to enrich user experience, story river was updated with other types of content which allowed us to introduce native ads section receiving positive community feedback. We also updated the existing Style Guide and prepared some updates for the right rale (widgets layout).

Mobile Experience 

In 2014 the mobile media usage became higher than PC usage in the USA. Since the mobile shift happened, the mobile experience started to play the key role for media website. Concentrated on growing population of our mobile users we updated and extended mobile Slashdot with Polls and Video sections. 

Administrators and Editors

Slashdot Media employees who are taking care of the content, administrators and editors are very special category of our users. Being part of the backstage, their interface never had been updated before. The updated user experience helped them to become more creative and productive in their daily duties. We introduced new 'Trending Stories' feature and other small interface updates based on their needs.
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