Daniel Harris

BBC Touchscreen news

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In brief

Client

BBC Mobile team

Role

Senior Interaction designer

Length

4 weeks

Team size

Art director, Senior interaction designer, Flash developer

Deliverable

Fully working prototype for proof of concept

Design process

Competitor research, intensive design sprints, client reviews, detail interaction and visual design. Final prototype developed in Flash Lite

The detail

A four week long project that sought to design a mobile 'news snacking' experience that would meet the high expectations of BBC audiences and define a step-change in touchscreen news app usability and addictiveness.

At Fjord, our goal was to create something that would build upon the success with Mobile iPlayer, which continues to win industry awards.

With my team at Fjord, I led the behavioural development of the app through a number of stages - from initial research of the best touchscreen design patterns, through the fuzz of concepting, to a fully working, visually designed live prototype, built in FlashLite by my colleagues Steve Graham and Dave Tappy