Glance

Glance is an AI-powered news app that turns complex stories into clear, concise summaries.

Glance is an AI-powered news app that turns complex stories into clear, concise summaries.

Keeping up with the news shouldn’t mean working through lengthy articles or information overload. Glance highlights the key points of each story, helping people understand what matters at a glance. The experience was also designed with different reading needs in mind, making daily news easier and more comfortable to follow.

Keeping up with the news shouldn’t mean working through lengthy articles or information overload. Glance highlights the key points of each story, helping people understand what matters at a glance. The experience was also designed with different reading needs in mind, making daily news easier and more comfortable to follow.

Context

Concept project

Role

Product designer

Platform

Mobile app

Duration

~5 days, 2025

The Context

The Context

Glance was a product concept I explored with an entrepreneur and a mobile developer. We imagined a news app that could bring coverage from multiple sources together in one clear, AI-generated summary, helping people stay informed without reading several lengthy articles about the same story.

Readers could scan the key highlights, move on to a fuller summary, or listen to the story instead.

We also explored a simple dyslexia-friendly reading mode for people who find long-form text tiring, although this remained an early direction rather than a fully researched and validated accessibility feature.

Glance was a product concept I explored with an entrepreneur and a mobile developer. We imagined a news app that could bring coverage from multiple sources together in one clear, AI-generated summary, helping people stay informed without reading several lengthy articles about the same story.

Readers could scan the key highlights, move on to a fuller summary, or listen to the story instead.

We also explored a simple dyslexia-friendly reading mode for people who find long-form text tiring, although this remained an early direction rather than a fully researched and validated accessibility feature.

01

Multiple sources, one story

Combine coverage from different sources into one concise summary.

02

Understand it faster

Surface key highlights first, with more context available when needed.

03

Read or listen

Let people follow the news in the format that feels easier.

The Experience

The Experience

The experience was structured around progressive disclosure: key highlights first, a fuller summary below, and audio as an alternative to reading.

The experience was structured around progressive disclosure: key highlights first, a fuller summary below, and audio as an alternative to reading.

Reflection

Reflection

Glance remained a concept. Once we evaluated the cost of continuously processing news from multiple sources, we decided not to move forward. If revisited, I would validate the core experience and explore through deeper research how Glance could better support readers with dyslexia.

Glance remained a concept. Once we evaluated the cost of continuously processing news from multiple sources, we decided not to move forward. If revisited, I would validate the core experience and explore through deeper research how Glance could better support readers with dyslexia.

©2026 İpek Erkan

©2026 İpek Erkan

©2026 İpek Erkan