hiring: senior IA
We’re looking for a permanent senior IA, preferably someone with: In-depth knowledge of navigation design, metadata, content management and search systems Experience promoting IA through public...
View Articlehappiness in managing metadata?
I think around 12 IAs have had to manage our metadata system at one time or another. One was not bothered by it, had no problems with the work. One other person found it satisfying and actually...
View Articlemeasuring the quality of IA
I’ve been asked to come up with a quantitative measure of success for the information architecture of the BBC website. I won’t be solving this is one post. Now I’m wary of this. We all know that what...
View Articlean embarrassment of programme support
For most of my BBC career, the website wasn’t really about TV & Radio. Discussion were filled with talk of news, sport, weather, recipe finder, GCSE Bitesize, initiatives like iCan and products...
View Articlemy homepage modules wishlist
I’m very happy with our customisable homepage. There’s no sport anymore for me, weather has top billing, and science & history get more space than they used to. Wimbledon was a useful addition over...
View ArticleHow Buildings Learn – TV series
Steward Brand has posted the six part BBC series of How Buildings Learn on Google Video. (The BBC’s White City building features. Brand says of it that “basic daylight is an unattainable luxury”. It...
View Articlemoving on
This is my last week at the BBC. Next week I’ll start my new job at the RNIB in Kings Cross. I’ve seen lots of people quit the BBC for the wrong reasons. Or at least they don’t resolve those problems...
View Articlehighs and lows of seven BBC years
Lows the MWB time, our horrible office above Holborn station. Broken windows that were never fixed, no meeting rooms, the place just oozed depression. But mostly for the sense that we’d become the BBC...
View Articlethe new job
Lot’s of people are asking how the RNIB compares to the BBC. My journey is much better for one thing, shorter and simpler. That has a surprisingly big impact on how happily the day goes. Judd Street is...
View Articlethe recommendation trap: iPlayer
I am a bit obsessed by ‘when recommendations go wrong’ scenarios like the JustRabbitHutches incident. iPlayer hasn’t done anything that silly, but it does seem to struggle with the recommendation...
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