Stan · 2024
ImplementedParis 2024 on Stan
Catch-up browsing and reusable content tiles for Olympic coverage on Stan.
- Contribution
- I designed Catch Up from the ground up and adapted TV designs for mobile. I worked with another designer on the other browsing screens and co-designed the Olympic tile templates.
- Outcome
- Developers automated tiles from our templates, so Olympic content took less manual work.
- Role
- Product Designer
- Platforms
- TV · Web · Mobile
- Timeline
- Mar–Aug 2024, Stan contract
- Team
- 4 product designers
1 researcher
1 product manager
Background
Olympic coverage within a familiar app.
The Olympics brought overlapping live events, overnight catch-up and large volumes of content into Stan.
- Existing layout
- Long pages of similar rows, with few ways to browse within a section.
- Production constraints
- Olympic content had to be prepared quickly with limited staffing.
- Browsing structure
- The navigation audit and the team’s early research informed separate entry points for live coverage, catch-up and individual sports.
Watch Now and Catch Up
Catch up on what happened overnight.
The Paris–Sydney time difference meant viewers could miss events overnight. I brought daily roundups, highlights and full replays into Catch Up.
Sports
A hub for each sport.
Viewers could also begin with a sport. All Sports leads to dedicated hubs with live coverage, schedules, highlights and replays.
Early Home concept
Bring overnight highlights into the morning.
The emphasis shifts through the Australian day: overnight highlights in the morning, live and upcoming coverage in the evening.
Content tile library
Shared rules for different content.
Tiles had to handle different sports, event states and name lengths. Another designer and I co-designed the Olympic tile templates.
Template
plus Image
plus Contrast
makes a Replay tile
Match the visual treatment to the content
Live and upcoming tiles use the black, gold and white of the Paris identity. Replay tiles use event imagery, with contrast layers behind the text.
Show when an event starts.
Beyond event cards
Channels, short videos and collections needed their own formats. I also supported another designer’s work on Stan’s wider sports tiles through research and feedback.
Handoff rules
Keep the right information visible.
Real event data brought long names and competing metadata. The handoff defined what to hide, resize or replace.
Keep athlete names
Hide seed numbers and “v” as needed before reducing name text to the template’s 20px minimum.
Fall back to countries
If doubles names still do not fit, use country names with the team template.
Limit the metadata
The wider Stan Sport specification limits team and doubles tiles to two items: replay date first, then round or stage, then competition name.
Outcome
Less manual work during Olympic coverage.
In my experience, templates and automatic generation helped our small team prepare large volumes of content with fewer typos. I don’t have production metrics or post-launch feedback.
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Stan · 2024
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