It was a major leap when Der Spiegel, Germany’s biggest news portal, shifted from their ten-year-old self-developed CMS to a modern solution. Amongst changing the CMS Der Spiegel used the opportunity to change the product development process, founded a DesignLab and developed a new design system. In this interview, Thomas and Peter will continue the story of DL Insights Episode 38: Learn how Der Spiegel added multi-brand capability to the design system and how they rolled it out to the manager magazine. They will talk about the Spiegel app and how they integrated the stand-alone newsstand app to enable completely channel-independent production of articles and significantly expand the strategic business area of audio in the app and web.
Head of DesignLab at Der Spiegel.DesignLab: Product development processes at Der Spiegel
Peter Grahle is the head of the Spiegel DesignLab, the digital product design team of the Spiegel Group. The interdisciplinary team is responsible for the publisher’s design system, a central component of the company’s product development. Before joining Spiegel, the UX designer worked as a team lead in various digital agencies and realized web projects for a wide range of clients from the B2B, tourism and FMCG sectors at the interface between users, design and technology.
Journalist and Moderator.
Thomas Riedel is a freelance tech-journalist, podcast producer, father and moderator in Cologne. His previous stations include deutsche-startups.de, Digitale Leute and Mediencluster NRW as Communication Officer and Event Manager for Gamescom and DMEXCO. He currently produces and hosts Germany’s largest Metaverse podcast „Spatial Realities“, the Apple Vision Pro podcast „Beyond Reality“ and the largest XR Meetup in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the podcast “FutureFuture”, he discusses future narratives with experts from all fields. As a speaker on the topics of metaverse, startups and digitalization, Riedel appears repeatedly in podcasts, meetups, conferences and as a tech-expert on live-TV.
