Friday, 7 June 2013

10 things we learned during the making of Firestorm

What comes out of a 3-month-long project involving journalists, designers, and developers across two countries, spanning five editorial desks? Well, lots of lessons. Here's our top 10.

Bushfires  

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Fragmented world: what two years of traffic data teaches you about mobile

Some of the grand themes of the past two years – the rise and rise of Apple, the decline of Nokia and RIM, and device fragmentation – were laid bare as we began the task of rebuilding our mobile site

Mobile phones  

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Reimagining the timeline: behind our Second Screen web app

Pulling together the vast mass of Olympics-related updates - blog posts, tweets, pictures, results, and more - in a single app for tablet created a bunch of design challenges. Here we explain how we went about solving them, and what we learned along the way

Friday, 23 March 2012

Computer, meet your maker

One of the themes at the inaugural Resonate festival in Belgrade was how to make reintroduce a human element to processes - including design - which increasingly rely on computation

Friday, 3 February 2012

Guardian Hack Day: The presentations

Follow us as we find out what the Guardian developers have built in their two-day hack day

Hack day   Open journalism   Programming   Software  

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Behind the rumours: how we built our Twitter riots interactive

An interdisciplinary team of academics and some advanced web technologies were behind one of our most ambitious visualisations yet

Reading the riots