Solutions that Empower the Individual

What if we could start again? What if we built a news community that was defined by the intentional choices of its members and not the cognitive overload of the crowd?

Every day is like getting in line for a ‘trust fall’, testing the limits of each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and resolving all the time to do better. Only with trust in each other and in each other’s processes will we actually build a product that maximises externally for people’s trust.

“At NevaLabs, we believe the path to a sustainable business model for news is through a radically enhanced and empowering user experience. Through the Smart Commute project, we hope to create a new standard for ‘Purposeful Personalisation’ that can be used by the news industry to unlock deeper engagement and trust”.

NevaLabs and Civil are partnering to power a more sustainable engagement model for journalism

Feedback has helped us view the project from the outside in, deep dive into users’ challenges, validating (and discarding) assumptions as well as identifying opportunities within our designs.

In work and in our product, we want to know that our time is well spent. That we’ve had a measurable impactful return on our attention. That we’ve hit a critical milestone that will move us further along our learning curve.

What if Facebook’s decision to end the News Feed as we know it is the best thing that could happen to digital journalism?

"We want to build the tools and filters the individual needs in a world where the primary gatekeeper is themselves."