Authors
-
Service Design at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
We needed to understand how people were using the full range of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ tools without already having in mind predetermined sub-tasks, with the aim of learning about totally unknown issues. By looking at examples from companies facing similar problems, a Service Design approach seemed a good choice.
-
Stargazing LIVE: Astronomy through social media
Hello there Iβm Simon Mackie, an assistant producer for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Factual, but I donβt make telly programmes. Instead, I work with TV production teams to develop and publish online content that complements their programmes. So Iβm a web producer really. Here Iβm going to talk about the online side of...
-
Mobile Downloads for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer
Today ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer is launching mobile downloads on smartphones and tablets. I'd like to talk about the thinking behind this new feature, and the benefits it brings to audiences. Part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's strategy for iPlayer in the past year has been to take it beyond the PC, and onto a host of diff...
-
Update on beta versions of new ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport homepages
Back in December, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport launched new beta versions of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport homepage, Football homepage and the sport homepages for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and invited you to give feedback. We can now update on the feedback received and what happens next.
-
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Programme pages: content driven responsive redesign
As of today the homepages for individual programmes, known as the brand page, have been relaunched with a new design. This design is responsive, making it flexible for all devices and joins the A-Z, Category and Schedule pages that were built this way last year.
-
Making collaboration count: UXD and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Editorial Platforms
To make your product or service more human-centred, the people you work with need to empathise with the users. The first step to make this happening is to invite them when you meet with users so they can witness and experience their feedback and comments.
-
Controlling audio volume in a web browser
The browser can measure the noise level around you using the microphone in your phone or tablet, and it can apply dynamic range limitation and automatic volume control.
-
Introducing trailers on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer: Find more of what you like on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
Over the last 12 months, weβve made trailers available on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer for some of the highlights coming up. From the new series of Sherlock to our Pure Drama trailer staring the incredible Suranne Jones, these have been really popular with the top trailer attracting nearly a million requests.
-
Navigating the data ecosystem technology landscape
The challenges of creating an open and transparent data ecosystem for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
-
Decommission of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News App v2
Neil McAlpine explains why the older version of the News App is being decommissioned.
-
The future of searching the past: Transitioning from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Redux to Archive Search
Redux recorded and stored all of our broadcast programmes for research and archive uses. Now Archive Search is the place to go to find archive content.
-
My Year on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Internet Blog
Sadly, like Dave Lee and Paul Murphy before me, it's my turn to move on from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Internet Blog. After spending fourteen months helping colleagues to blog about the work they do, I wanted to share more about the blog works.
-
Understanding public service curation: What do βgoodβ recommendations look like?
Examining the qualities required to create good recommendations for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's digital content.
-
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ pages removed from Google search results: 2020
A European Court ruling allows individuals to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their results. Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from certain searches, including some to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ web pages. We have decided to make clear which pages have been impacted.
-
QC Live: A quality control production tool for broadcasting
One of the challenges facing the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ is the increasing pressure to produce ever increasing volumes of audio and video content for a variety of different platforms (e.g. for television, PC, mobile and tablet) whilst maintaining a very high level of quality.
-
Sochi Winter Olympics Index Launched
This new responsive site will be the home of all our Sochi coverage, including 650 hours of live video in up to six simultaneous streams in the UK.
-
Connected Studio for Research and Education Space: Improving access to online educational resources
A team of developers and data architects have been building a new system that will bring together linked open data catalogues from a wide range of online educational resources, improving access for teaching, learning and research.
-
Opening up our data science course materials
Felix Mercer Moss explains how the Datalab course materials are being opened up to the public.
-
Creating a universal UX pattern for responsive location search
The brief was to create a responsive UX pattern for searching and setting a βpreferredβ location across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. We needed a unified UX solution β something that would make the user experience more intuitive and reduce the need to repeat location searches.Β
-
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ+ relaunch - An experimental app for a more personal ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
Here's what's happening with the relaunch of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ+ app.
