Posts filed under “Information Architecture”
How to write a successful user story
I have worked in many teams who define product and project requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria. What makes a good user story? As a User I want to listen to a documentary programme from Radio 4 on my PC, so that I can increase my understanding of the subject of the documentary. As [...]
BBC proms – now available on mobile phones
I’ve written previously about the proms website redesign. However, we just updated the site to supply a mobile view for those using the site on a phone. The site is now multiplatform, and uses content negotiation to provide the user with an appropriate experience for their device. One of the aspects I find most pleasing [...]
Music Chart and playlist data services for BBC radio
This project took place late last year, but is worth writing up because it shows some of the problems that the BBC has when it tries to build user experiences based on data, at the scale that it needs. This project provides the BBC with a data service for music charts and playlists. It turns [...]
Lorem Ipsum – not cool at all
If you’re a UX professional, I suspect you’ve used Lorem Ipsum dummy text in your deliverables. I’ve done it, but I don’t want to anymore. It appears I’m not alone, but Lorem Ipsum dummy text in UX deliverables does us no favours. It adds confusion. One of my main concerns at the BBC is to [...]
Radio 3 – The BBC Proms website redesign
Update October 2011: we’re submitting The Proms website to this year’s Webby Awards:http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms A week ago we relaunched The BBC Proms website. This website and content management system was developed by Magnetic North, in collaboration with the BBC. I was lead information architect on the project. Key features of the new website Andrew Downs, editorial [...]
Origami Wireframing
The Desert Island Discs project had a very aggressive development plan. At several points in the project we had to work very quickly. As usual, when working for a large employer, there were many stakeholders, each of whom needed to be satisfied in order to achieve signoff. One of the crunch points we found was [...]
Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs
The desert island discs project is one of the highlights of my career. It does lots of things that I think a redesigned site should do, and working on it gave me the chance to work with some of the best content the BBC has (which lets face it, is pretty good ). You can [...]
‘Radio 4 – The Archers website redesign information architecture notes
Last week we launched the new archers website. It’s an example of how we’re trying to bring structure to the content management systems used to maintain the BBC websites. It’s also an example of publishing the same content to multiple platforms. The new archers site as an audience facing proposition is not something I can [...]
Radio 4 homepage redesign
Recently we launched a new iteration of the radio 4 homepage. This work was done by clearleft. It was great for me and the rest of the team to see them in action. I thought you might like to hear about some of the design process. The Design Brief The brief for clearleft included the [...]
Quizmaster – multiplatform quiz publishing with accessibility
It’s been a while since I did a blog post. I thought I would write about one of my favourite projects of the last few months. Quizmaster is a new content management system for the BBC which is specifically focused on multichoice quizzes. Using it, content producers at the BBC can quickly develop and deploy [...]