Interactives

Role: art direction, coding, concepts

A selection of interactive articles

Mark in the middle

In leaked audio obtained by The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg faces anger from Facebook employees about how he’s handled the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the Trump administration. We built an interactive page to allow readers to listen first hand to the leaked audio within our article where it is referenced. We also used code to create the angry emojis faces >:(

The Peace Reporters

Police brutality is everywhere in America, chronicled extensively through smartphone footage. The Verge decided to talk to the people behind the films, to better understand this summer of protest. We designed the experience to focus on each event,
including embedding video.

How Many Dongles

Knowing how ridiculous dongles can be, we built a quiz to help our readers prepare for their next dongle dilemma — from Thunderbolt adapters, to HDMI converter boxes, to Fireware cables.

This is a map of America’s broadband problem

The pandemic made the broadband problem impossible to ignore, so we laid out the counties with the worst broadband usage in the US, using data collected by Microsoft instead of the FCC.

What The Verge covered in our first 120,000 stories

We broke down what The Verge wrote about over its first 10 years: from iPhone vs. Android, to Elon Musk and Kanye, to how quickly TikTok became a competitor to YouTube, and then visualized everything in this striking, informative and fun feature.

Verge 10

For The Verge’s 10th anniversary, we looked back at our biggest reviews and stories and ahead at the trends and problems to come. We built an interactive landing page for the twenty plus stories for our readers to navigate to look back at great iPhones, struggling Windows Phones, Facebook’s free speech troubles, and to reminisce about watching NASA, Tesla, and SpaceX evolve.

All the best emails from the Apple vs. Epic trial

While we all waited for a verdict in Epic v. Apple, we created a giant collection of things we learned from their emails, including Apple’s lackluster App Store enforcement, Epic’s Fortnite trap, and 107 other tidbits. Given the density of the content, I built an interactive page to allow readers to get a macro view of our findings, letting them expand on the topics that they might find most interesting.

Keep it Locked

A special package about protecting yourself online — along with stories about how important that protection can be when things go wrong.

The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched

After 10 years, these are the worst gadgets and reviews in The Verge’s history. From the RED Hydrogen One to the MacBook’s Butterfly keyboard.

2020 in a DNA time capsule

2020 was quite the year with so much happening. So, The Verge built a time capsule made of synthetic DNA to store the biggest events of 2020 for thousands of years. We then built an interactive site to let readers navigate and view the contents that we included in the capsule.

The Verge’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2021

We put together a list of 30 possible gifts — such as games, bath bombs, chocolate, and movies — that might give your mom (or you) a short vacation from stress.

Normal Password System: A Game

It seems as though the criteria for creating passwords gets more and more outragous, so we built a totally normal, not weird at all password generator to test your security skills...

To all the streaming services you’ve never heard of before

Streaming services like Disney Plus, HBO Max, and Netflix are household names, but what about smaller niche platforms? In a streaming-focused world, some of the biggest bets aren’t the best known. We built a quiz to test our readers ability to suss out the real from the fake streaming services.