Designing for Customization: How to Build a Modular News Theme

How do you approach product design for the ever-evolving news landscape? And how do you develop a theme that includes all the core functionality a news site needs – while also allowing individual organizations to modify layouts, brand their content, and really make their site their own? In this workshop, we’ll look at the the product design process for Largo 1.0, a highly customizable news theme developed by the Institute for Nonprofit News. You’ll learn how to work with the Customizer and think conceptually about designing page templates with flexibility at top of mind.

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