Captiva

Streamlining journalism, from pitch to publication. 


Captiva reduces mess and stress in the newsroom, giving journalists an organized place to store all their information. With tools to enable collaboration, all the relevant reporters, writers, and experts can come together quickly for a story. Captiva is bringing the newsroom into the 21st century. 

Concept Video

See the vision of Captiva like we do

Medium-Fi Prototype

Experience the future of journalism for yourself

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Needfinding

We know the newsroom can be hectic at times, but we were keen to understand exactly what issues caused this environment. We talked to everyone, from amateurs to world reknowned professionals in journalism.

Experience Prototypes

No one on our team had enough experience in journalism to understand the ins and outs of the issues. Thus, we wanted to make sure we weren't on the wrong track.




Concept Video

The vision was still being developed, but we were excited about the work we were doing and were ready to share our ideas with the world! Our exact implementation has since been refined, but our vision has remained the same all along.

Lo-Fi Prototype

We finally felt like we had a solid handle on what people wanted. But when it came to implentation, we weren't exactly sure how this could work within journalists' workflows. We drew dozens of sketches and went back out into the field to test them.

Medium-Fi Prototype

Finally, we see the app begin to take shape! There were still plently of challenges ahead, but having something on screen was thrilling. The finish line was in sight.

Heuristic Evaluation

In this stage, we got the opportunity to let other developers test our interface and give us their honest feedback.


Hi-Fi Prototype

We finally built out a mobile application to test on an iPhone X. Download our prototype below and read our final report!

Poster + Pitch

We presented our work at the CS147 Project Fair. See our poster and pitch slide below.



MEET THE TEAM

We're excited to be building the future of journalism.

Peter H.

CS + Math
Software / Design

Nik M.

CS + Polisci
Software / Prototyping Design

Jason P.

Symbolic Systems
Software

Will Y.

CS + Neuro
Software / Design