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Msnbc.com new mobile site: design for modularity

Jun 29, 2010 · 
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Awards winners, Design, msnbc.com, Portfolio · 
By Vu Nguyen

msnbc new mobile front
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Last year I went offline for a few months to work on a cou­ple of per­sonal projects and an iPhone app for msnbc.com. About a year later and after the iPhone project fell through, I was asked to design a new msnbc.com mobile ver­sion. The tar­get audi­ence is peo­ple who own devices that have Webkit-based browsers such as iPhone and Google Android phones. The project was a huge under­tak­ing for me due to the com­plex­ity of our busi­ness and the audi­ence size that this project would impact. Given that most other large news orga­ni­za­tions have released their web­sites for these devices, we wanted to chal­lenge our­selves to do some­thing better.

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Adversity Index Map

Feb 24, 2010 · 
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Awards winners, Maps, msnbc.com, Portfolio · 
By Vu Nguyen

Adversity index map
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Update Feb 24, 2010: I just learned that this piece won a Best in Business award for cre­ative use of online media from Society of American Business Editors and Writers. I want to thank all the par­tic­i­pants who made this project pos­si­ble. Cheers!

The Adversity Index, from msnbc.com and Moody’s Economy.com, mea­sures the eco­nomic health of 381 metro areas and all 50 states. Each area is in reces­sion, at risk, recov­er­ing or expand­ing. On this map you can explore changes in the four com­po­nents of the index: employ­ment, hous­ing starts, hous­ing prices and indus­trial pro­duc­tion, each shown as a per­cent­age change from a year earlier.

This map con­tains more than 350,000 data points. It was a chal­lenge because we didn’t have appro­pri­ate data­base tools to sup­port the map. We had to split the data set into five big chunks and merged them in Flash. I wrote a tool that allow load­ing data from dif­fer­ent sub­sets and merged them into one data struc­ture that was plot­ted on the map.

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Awards and hon­ors
2010 – Best in busi­ness from Society of American Business Editors and Writers

Endorsements of All Shapes and Sizes

Nov 16, 2008 · 
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Awards winners, Design, New York Times, Politics, Portfolio · 
By Vu Nguyen

The inter­ac­tive fea­ture is a col­lage of politi­cians, ex-politicians, celebri­ties and news­pa­per opin­ion pages. Mouse over to view which pres­i­den­tial can­di­date they endorse.

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Awards and hon­ors
2007 – Awards of Excellence from Society of News Design

Interactive Tour of Mount Kilimanjaro

Nov 16, 2008 · 
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3D, Awards winners, Design, Maps, New York Times, Portfolio · 
By Vu Nguyen

Every year, thou­sands of peo­ple set to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, but about a quar­ter of them fail before reach­ing the sum­mit. The rest, who suc­ceed, become very ill from lat­i­tude sickness.

Is it worth the efforts? Check out Tom Bissell’s account of his painful and exhaust­ing climb to the sum­mit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Awards and hon­ors
2009 — Part of the Design USA exhi­bi­tion at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2007 — Gold from mal­ofiej 16
2007 — Gold from Society of News Design
2007 — Best of Category: Interactive/Digital award in the 2007 CaGIS/ACSM Map Design Competition

Election ’08 Campaign Finance

Nov 16, 2008 · 
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Awards winners, Maps, New York Times, Politics, Portfolio, Programming · 
By Vu Nguyen

Election '08 Campaign Finance

The inter­ac­tive map shows cam­paign finance data for each pres­i­den­tial can­di­date in the 2008 elec­tion. The ver­sion I worked on that won an award was pub­lished in 2007. It has been sub­se­quently replaced by the cur­rent ver­sion on the site.

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Awards
2007 – Awards of Excellence from Society of News Design

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