Yahoo 100

SERVICES

DESIGN STRATEGY

REAL-TIME DATA PIPELINES

AI-ASSISTED PROTOTYPING

YEAR

2026

INFO

Yahoo Trending is a standalone Yahoo News experience surfacing the top 100 trending stories, videos, and conversations across the internet in near real time. As the lead and sole product designer, I shaped the end-to-end experience. The experience needed to balance speed, clarity, and scalability while helping users quickly navigate rapidly evolving conversations, media, and news signals.

PROBLEM

As a 0→1 initiative, the product evolved rapidly alongside changing editorial goals, data availability, and technical constraints. Because trend data was generated and refined in near real time, the design process required close collaboration across product, engineering, editorial, and leadership teams to continuously shape what the experience could become. The product needed to feel dynamic and distinct while still integrating naturally within Yahoo’s broader ecosystem of design systems, content structures, and engineering patterns.

SOLUTION

Yahoo Trending increased engagement across Yahoo News experiences while improving discoverability for articles, videos, and editorial content. More broadly, the project established scalable patterns for future real-time editorial experiences and demonstrated how AI-assisted systems could support dynamic content discovery at scale.