Posts authored by Alastair Jardine:


Friday, 9 December 2016

Adventures with Echo
Alastair Jardine

In September, we released our flash briefing and skill for the Amazon Echo. Since then, we’ve tried to figure out how people are using this device. Here are some of the things we’ve learned.

Advent developer blog 2016   Gadgets  

Amazon Echo review - blue lights


Monday, 9 February 2015

"Do what you want": building great products through anarchy
Alastair Jardine

How can you build better products that involve everyone on the team? The Workflow team tried developer anarchy and found it a great way to build software

Computing   Software  

Very early sketch exploration of the Workflow product

Thursday, 29 May 2014

Improving the beta commenting experience
Alastair Jardine, Wendy Orr

Our focus returns to the commenting experience on beta. Take a look at what we’re doing and provide us with your feedback

Improvements coming to the beta commenting experience.

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Young Rewired State 2013: mentoring the tech stars of tomorrow
Jenny Sivapalan, Alastair Jardine, Will Franklin, Matt Andrews

Some of the Guardian's digital development team describe a day mentoring young coders for the annual Festival of Code by Young Rewired State

Programming  

The crowd at Young Rewired State 2013

Friday, 1 February 2013

Sending better emails
Alastair Jardine

Some notes on prototyping the Guardian's editorial emails and what we learned about their design and user experience

Email  

Understanding the content patterns in our current emails. They’re scribbles, but with a purpose.

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Our new video pages – an inside look at some of the design details
Alastair Jardine

Alastair Jardine, one of the Guardian's user experience architects, talks through our newly-designed video pages

Initial sketch wireframes for a new video page template on guardian.co.uk