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BBC UX&D’s new 'GEL' design website goes live
The first BBC web page was published in 1997. Within ten years we had over four hundred websites, all designed differently. Such entropy was unsustainable and confused our users. Hence the introduction of GEL, a shared design framework which standardised our core interaction patterns.
BBC Online Briefing Winter 2014: Q&A
In this last video speakers from each of the day’s sessions took to the stage to respond to questions from the audience
Digital Glastonbury: From Stage to Smartphone
This year you'll be able to see more of Glasto than ever before on whatever device you like, the first truly digital Glastonbury. We're beaming six stages of live music back from Glastonbury and distributing on mobiles, tablets, computers, and via the Connected Red Button so you can watch it li...
Privacy by design
Some of the technical challenges around providing data privacy options.
Beat the Bot - use your voice to challenge our sport bot
Beat the Bot is a web-based competitive football sports quiz that uses speech recognition. Use your voice and go head-to-head with the Bot to name all the teams relegated from the Premier League!
Building the Winter Olympics Web Pages
Six months ago I blogged about the development of BBC Sport's Correspondent pages - Sport's first fully responsive web pages. Since then we have been working hard creating a whole range of Winter Olympics pages such as the Sochi 2014 homepage, discipline pages e.g. snowboarding, the medal table ...
BBC Food: A website redesign with all screens in mind
More people are now visiting the BBC Food website on a handheld device than on a desktop or laptop computer. In response to this new trend, BBC Food has decided to redesign their website to be more mobile friendly and provide the ability to access all content, no matter what the screen.
CBeebies adds new Peter Rabbit and Hey Duggee games to Playtime Island app
How the popular Playtime Island app has been updated.
BBC Search: Play your cards right with new feature
Search cards allow us to field certain types of search queries and present the results in a way that best satisfies their search ‘intent’. For instance, when someone searches for a programme title, most want to watch or listen to that programme right then and there.
From Destination to Service: Rio 2016 Olympics
In addition to creating a more personalised experience on the My Sport app, the BBC Sport app team has launched a virtual reality trial app - BBC Sport 360. These apps are expected to provide users with a greater Olympic experience through tailored content.
Linked data Connected Studio event
The two aims of our event were: to get a better understanding of how we can use 'people' to tie together BBC content online, and to put the linked data platform through its paces.
New version of BBC Media Player in Google Play Store and Amazon Store
We want to offer our mobile audiences the same capabilities that we offer on desktop and laptop computers. This summer, for those of you watching the World Cup and Commonwealth Games, we will be offering the ability to 'rewind' all the way back to the beginning of a live event in case you missed...
What's on BBC Red Button: 4-10 January 2014
Ring in 2014 with World Darts, Team GB's Winter Olympics medal hopes, Stargazing LIVE, a behind-the-scenes look at one of CBBC's biggest shows and more new year treats from BBC Red Button.
BBC North Future Media: Higher Level Apprenticeship Scheme
BBC North Future Media at MediaCityUK, Salford are piloting a brand new Higher Level Apprenticeship Scheme in IT, Software and Web Technologies. The scheme will give young people the opportunity to work on iPlayer (TV & Radio), Sport, CBBC, CBeebies, iWonder, Homepage and Search.
Show me the ML-oney
The latest is the series of BBC Machine Learning Fireside Chats.
BBC iPlayer Radio introduces new 'My Radio' features
MyRadio works by keeping track of the BBC Radio programmes you listen to online, in order to help you keep up with the programmes that you love and introduce you to new programmes we think you’ll enjoy.
BBC iPlayer Radio app on Windows 8 phones
I’m pleased to say that today sees the launch of the BBC’s first iPlayer Radio app for Windows Phone 8 users
How we got BBC Red Button and Red Button+ to work together
...by uniquely identifying devices, we could use cloud based storage to pass messages between our HTML apps and MHEG.
BIDI: The BBC Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained
BIDI is the BBC’s own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the BBC end users in the UK. The clients are always presented with a ‘CDN mix’ from which they can fetch the media they are interested in. BIDI is part of this mix, alongside the commercial CDNs.
How we built "The Doctor and the Dalek" CBBC game
Previous work at the BBC had already determined a 2D platform game would form the base genre for us to build on … but the demands of the curriculum required our examples of problem solving to be based in the real world, which is 3D.
