Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2014
Posts (7)
Connected Studio: Winter 2014 update
We look to work with digital agencies, technology start-ups, academia and individual designers and developers (including BBC staff) who want to submit and develop ideas for a range of new functions, features or formats across our online services.
Testing BBC iPlayer: Krispy Gherkin feature file aggregator
One of the problems we have been facing at BBC iPlayer for a long time is the way we approach documenting the features included in the project and our test strategy. There is no silver bullet here, as it's hard to find a solution that is fast, accurate, stable, and that works for developers, dev...
BBC Online Briefing: November 2014
One of the hot topics for the BBC as an online broadcaster is interactive video.
Designing BBC Search
Users frequently enter short and vague terms, which are often misspelt. If we could help users enter more accurate search terms then we would be able to give them much more useful and relevant results.
Round up: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds and the Ethical Dilemma Cafe
“BBC clamps down on ILLICIT iPlayer watchers” was the Register’s colourful headline about the decision to switch off BBC iPlayer RSS feeds.
Labelling BBC Online's archived websites
The BBC cares for its online archive, maintaining access to years of content. But maintaining access to the archive is different to maintaining the content itself, which means much of the archive is frozen in time: we no longer update it. In those cases, we’ve added a clear label to the page.
Back to school: Teaching the User Experience Design process
Hello, I’m Ryan Hope a User Experience Designer in BBC Future Media. I’m delighted to write my first BBC blog post and tell you about a really exciting collaboration that happened earlier this year between BBC User Experience & Design (UX&D) and the Manchester School of Art.
