PBCore website

Workgroups within the public broadcasting communities developed PBCore so that producers and local stations could better share, manage, and preserve their media. Since PBCore’s creation, it’s been widely adopted by moving image archives and media organizations to manage their audiovisual assets and collections.

In 2018, a workgroup formed through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create the PBCore website. The website aimed to widen the reach of the PBCore tools, attracting more contributors and users. This workgroup had a long-standing partnership with GBH’s Media Library and Archives team.

They reached out to the GBH Creative team, bringing me onboard to storyboard the user interface and design the webpages.

Client

PBCore Development team, in partnership with GBH

Type

User interface design

Year

2019

desktop computer scrolling the PBCore home screen

Process

My contributions:

I collaborated closely with the design and development team to create the site’s wireframe.

Then, I worked through multiple iterations to establish a clean, stark, user friendly look and feel for the site and design every page layout. Lastly, I prepared all the assets and specifications for the team’s web developer for coding and testing.

Desktop computer displaying the PBCore web pages

Outcome

The site, pbcore.org, is an active and growing site, and their community of contributors and users has vastly expanded.

Through the same GBH partnership, I was invited to also redesign AMS 2.0, a robust database search tool for media assets.

Other work

I’m always game to discuss new initiatives and unique challenges. Drop me an email anytime.

lking@laurakingdesign.com